Tufts Health Plan — the Bay State’s third-largest health insurer — has filed plans to offer health insurance in the Rhode Island marketplace.
THP said Thursday that it filed an application to offer insurance in Rhode Island with the state’s Department of Business Regulations, which is similar to the Massachusetts Division of Insurance.
Tufts CEO James Roosevelt [...]
State Health Secretary Mary Selecky joined other national health leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to launch a new stop-smoking campaign.
Smokers have heard all of the life-saving reasons why they should quit. The free program, called EX, wants to make current smokers ex-smokers by targeting how they can quit.
In 2006-2007, the anti-smoking [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series focusing on the different stages of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia though one family’s eyes. This week’s focus: caregiving in the severe stage.
The day after Christmas last year, Marjorie Jackson faced the most difficult decision of her life. One she was not prepared [...]
Their study showed how this genetic variation produced proteins that were toxic and killed motor neuron cells in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, also commonly known as motor neuron disease or Lou Gehrigs disease.
We discovered that the mutation was appearing only in people who were affected, said Chris Shaw, a researcher at the [...]
