Is Maine falling behind New Hampshire in terms of access to health care? Medicaid expansion’s impact in northern New England

From The Commonwealth Fund Before the Affordable Care Act expanded coverage, New Hampshire greatly lagged Maine in terms of access to health care for low-income adults. But in August 2014, New Hampshire expanded its Medicaid program and has since caught up to its New England neighbor, matching Maine on its uninsured rate among low-income adults …

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Wednesday, it’s mumps: Don’t miss this season’s last Science in the News seminar.

Wednesday in Pfizer Hall, Mallinckrodt Chemistry Labs from 7 to 9:00 p.m. Please see the directions here on how to access Pfizer Hall, located at 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge. After decades of decline, mumps — once a ubiquitous childhood illness — is on the rise again. In this lecture, we’ll focus on the recent mumps outbreak right …

Tuesday 5/8 at the MGH museum: Influenza — Then (1918) and Now (2018)”

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Mass General Hospital invites you to attend its next evening lecture. "Influenza -- Then (1918) and Now (2018)" will be presented by Martin S. Hirsch, MD, of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 from 6 to 8 pm …

Big data is big in health care. With #data from police and social services, #hospitals could help patients who constantly show up at the #ER.

It's probably PI to call them this, but they are known as frequent flyers. An editorial in The Boston Globe this morning lauds a new program -- which calls them "Frequent Utilizers " --  aimed at helping hospital  staff help patients who show up at the ED again and again. Researchers, police officers, and doctors …

One Harvard researcher called proton beam units unaffordable “Death Stars.” A Harvard-linked hospital has one.

It's not unusual for health policy researchers to hold opinions that differ from parent institutions. Here's one case. A Kaiser Health News story says "the facilities zap cancer with beams of subatomic proton particles instead of conventional radiation. The treatment, which can cost $48,000 or more, affects surrounding tissue less than traditional radiation does because …

Monday #Movies and #medicine: Science on Screen takes on false #memories with a showing of the film “Inception” and an introductory talk by a neuroscientist.

At Coolidge Corner Cinema in Brookline: Before the film, Boston University neuroscience professor Steve Ramirez will talk about the real-life malleability of human memories and how easily false memories can actually be created. Christopher Nolan (Memento, Dunkirk) writes and directs this mind-bending, Oscar-winning exploration of dreamscapes, timelines, and the unconscious in one of the most visually …

How to use interactive graphics to look at #Massachusetts #hospital #quality measures like infection rates. Data for individual hospitals, health care systems and the entire state.