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How Massachusetts can defeat hunger

Many of the 1.8 million food insecure Bay State adults must consider daily trade-offs: Rent or groceries? Pay the utility bill or buy food to feed their family?

Ideas

Menopause is something employers should have to sweat, too

I quit my job amid hot flashes and brain fog in the office. With better support, I might have stayed.

Columns

An Olympian’s death highlights this nation’s maternal mortality crisis

No high-income nation loses more women in childbirth than America. It’s even worse for Black women.

Ideas

Let’s liberate women from the speculum

The invasive duck-billed metal device has been the bane of routine checkups for 180 years. It’s time to reinvent the pelvic exam.

Columns

Letters in a time of pandemic

An engaging new book opens a window on Maine Governor Janet Mills’s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam and the nearby nuclear plant

The full scale of this disaster is difficult to comprehend and its long-term consequences impossible to exaggerate.

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Prescription prices should be addressed at BIO International Convention

Especially with big pharma raising prices on nearly 1,000 drugs in just the first month of 2023.

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Legislature must regulate role of pharmacy benefit managers in our health care

No one is holding PBMs accountable.