BUSM made the decision March 25 that they would be graduating the class of 2020 a month early, on April 17, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Massachusetts’ other three medical schools — Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and University of Massachusetts Medical School — will also be graduating students early.
The grant will be used to bolster law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of sex exploitation while also funding recovery services and training for state employees to better help survivors.
Massachusetts has seen an eight percent decrease in opioid overdose deaths from 2016 to 2017. A recent Department of Public Health report showed estimates that there will be between 433 and 518 more deaths added to the current confirmed 1,501 in 2017.
In an effort to raise public awareness about suicide prevention, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the city’s partnership with a support organization called Samaritans of Boston on Saturday during...
The Massachusetts legislature is calling for further reforms to the Electronic Benefit Transfer food stamp system after multiple reports of fraud uncovered a lack of oversight in the system.
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