Veteran Boston activist Aubri Esters, who led efforts to expand treatment for substance use and rights for people who use drugs, was found dead by police in her apartment on Thursday.Esters had been on methadone to treat an opioid use disorder use for at least a decade. Her cause of death is pending. She was…
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced Friday the results of a study that evaluated community exposure to COVID-19.Of the Boston residents tested, 9.9% tested positive for antibodies, and 2.6% of those tested who were asymptomatic tested positive for COVID-19. About 1 in 10 residents in the study have developed antibodies, and about 1 in 40 currently…
Sunday's print edition of the Boston Globe contained 16 pages of death notices, a somber reflection of the growing number of novel coronavirus cases and deaths. That's more than double the number of pages with death notices as ran on the same Sunday in 2019, according to CBS News. The previous Sunday, the Globe ran 11 pages of the…
Published: April 17, 2026, 7:30 pm On April 10 the Washington State Department of Health advised the FDA of a recall of certain shellfish because of norovirus-like illnesses associated with consumption of raw oysters. The recall includes all species of shellstock from Gomez Shellfish LLC (WA-1724-SS), harvested on March 22 through April 9, from a
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The E. coli matches that from patient samples from an outbreak in 2025 Published: April 17, 2026, 12:05 am Federal inspectors have found E. coli contamination in raw cheddar cheese produced by Raw Farm LLC of Fresno, CA. The dairy is linked to an ongoing E. coli outbreak that has sickened nine people across three