The public health game plan behind World Cup matches in Massachusetts
Emergency planning for the World Cup matches at Foxborough's Gillette Stadium started more than a year ago, involving more than 70 local, state and national agencies.
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In Boston, doctors try a dose of nature as medicine
Doctors spend years becoming experts in how the body works, how it can break down and how to recognize and treat various illnesses. Their training rarely involves what’s known as...
How it's made: Our interactive asking chatbots mental health scenarios
For our series "AI in the doctor's office," WBUR created an interactive that replicates the experience of a new user asking AI chatbots mental health questions. It then shows what...
Test how AI chatbots answer mental health questions — and how therapists think they did
Experience hypothetical mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Then, read takeaways from Boston-area therapists on what was good or bad about the chatbots' responses.
Many people now trust AI with their feelings. And therapists want to talk about it
Mental health clinicians have started asking clients how they use generative artificial intelligence chatbots to support their emotional well-being. Some clinician-researchers are building platforms to educate people about chatbots' strengths...
AI can detect breast cancer risk before humans. Why it may take hospitals a while to adopt the tech
Researchers are studying a machine learning-powered warning system for breast cancer. It works by detecting subtle changes in a mammogram that humans can't spot, but could soon become cancer.
Abortion providers and opponents in Mass. await decision in legal battle over mifepristone
A permanent restriction on mailing mifepristone would have major impacts in Massachusetts where the vast majority of prescriptions for abortion pills written in 2024 were delivered via telehealth.
Supreme Court temporarily restores telehealth access to abortion pill mifepristone
The justices’ order Monday allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
The doctor is in — or is it AI?
If you’ve been to a medical appointment lately, it’s likely that your doctor was using some form of artificial intelligence. Increasingly, diagnostic AI tools are entering doctors' offices and hospitals,...
How music is helping Vermonters with dementia and their caregivers
Once a month, people with dementia and those who care for someone who does meet at St. Luke's Episcopal church in Chester to attend what's known as a memory cafe....
Vermont will allow some psychologists to prescribe drugs
Vermont's new bill will give psychologists with doctoral degrees the ability to prescribe mental health medications. However, groups like the Vermont Medical Society and the Vermont Psychiatric Association argue that...