At Dr. Fathalla Mashali’s pain management clinics, the waiting rooms were often so packed with patients that people sat on the floor, leaned against walls and spilled into the hallways. That’s because, federal prosecutors say, Mashali was prescribing oxycodone and other powerful opioid painkillers at alarming rates to people making… Read More

Matt Garlock has trouble making out what his friends say in loud bars, but when he got a hearing test, the result was normal. Recent research may have found an explanation for problems like his, something called “hidden hearing loss.” Scientists have been finding evidence that loud noise — from… Read More

Did a Big Pharma drugmaker intentionally release a deadly epidemic on the streets of America? As deaths from painkillers and heroin abuse spiked and street crimes increased, the mayor of Everett took major steps to tackle the opioid epidemic devastating his working-class city. Combat Veteran’s Secret: 90 Days to New… Read More

President Donald Trump is predicting that rates for health insurance will go “down, down, down” if Congress passes the House GOP health care bill. Trump says the number of plans available to consumers will go up with changes to the law. The president is meeting with about a dozen people… Read More

Mary Clancey says she was resigned to being a plump old lady. Over 15 years she kept getting bigger despite dieting. But with her health deteriorating, her son persuaded her to go to the hospital. What doctors found astounded them: She wasn’t fat; a cyst in one of her ovaries… Read More