September 24, 2017 EditionEdition

For most, the thought of going to prison is a nightmare.

Q&A talks with Dr. Mark Splaine, Community Health Center's education director, about the new National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA).

Among the countless substance abuse patients I've worked with during my 17 years inside detox units, pain clinics and mental health centers, a patient whose story sticks out in my mind is someone I'll call Sally.

There are not many certainties in health care during these tumultuous times, but here are a few.

Matt Eacott's fall from Avon prep school student athlete to opioid misuser and an eventual heroin addiction may have had a sad ending, if he hadn't found a unique in-home treatment program.

When certified eating disorder specialist Rebekah Bardwell Doweyko returned to Connecticut in 2011, she was surprised to...

Earlier this year, the American College of Physicians, which provides medical treatment advice to its 148,000 member doctors and subspecialists around the world, updated its decade-old guidelines for lower-back pain, adding acupuncture to its list of recommended therapies to be tried before prescribing any drugs.