Boston Children's Hospital

Seven-year-old Liza Scott is a spunky kid and full of energy. She’s in good spirits despite receiving devastating news several weeks ago that turned her whole world upside-down. That news is what brought Liza and her family from Homewood, Alabama, to Boston Children’s Hospital. “About a month ago she had some pretty massive seizures,” Liza’s mother, Elizabeth Scott said....

Track and field is facing a painful and public reckoning with the treatment of some female athletes. Former teen running star Mary Cain’s account this week of alleged physical and emotional abuse at the recently disbanded Nike Oregon Project is prompting more top athletes to come forward. Amy Yoder Begley, a 10,000-meter runner, said Friday she was told she had...

Opioid prescriptions remain common for teens and young adults, a new study finds. NBC News reported that, from 2005 to 2015, nearly 15 percent of teens and young adults received an opioid prescription during an emergency room visit, according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. That’s compared with 3 percent among those who were seen in an...

Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence, wanted to send his 3-year-old son to Boston for brain surgery and needed visas for his family....
After days of internal debate, the still young Trump administration rejected the request, seeing...

An Iranian cancer researcher who was detained at Boston’s Logan International Airport has been sent back to his home country.

A mother’s tweets sharing her son’s hospital bill have gone viral as Senate Republicans are working to pass a new health care bill.

Do states with stricter gun laws have less gun violence than those with few restrictions? .
Researchers who have studied the issue argue they generally do, but with some caveats. They cannot say whether the laws, or some other factors, are the reason for a lower rate of firearm deaths and that there are exceptions.