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Falmouth High School was the first school in Massachusetts to adopt a Hope Squad in 2022. More schools on the Cape are following their lead this year.

The state Department of Public Health announced eight new monkeypox cases in its weekly update on the virus on Thursday. That makes 21 since the first Massachusetts case was reported in May. But there’s some good news here for Cape Cod.

"Our goal is to divert these individuals from going to the emergency room or being arrested if they don't need to be," says Stephanie Rubel, the first full-time clinician assisting Barnstable police under the state's developing co-response model.

Hundreds of people lined up in their cars on Wednesday at the Cape Cod Fairgrounds in Falmouth to get the COVID-19 vaccine. It was the first public clinic…

The largest hospital group on the South Coast hopes to open a drive-through testing site for coronavirus as soon as possible—maybe even Thursday.But as of…

We all know we’re supposed to eat a balanced diet with a combination of different types of foods. A growing body of research suggests the same is true…

Electronic cigarettes have been widely perceived as safer than conventional combustion cigarettes. But more than two thousand cases of lung injury and…

Seema Lakdawala, University of Pittsburgh and Linsey Marr, Virginia TechLeer en español.Influenza, or flu, viruses cause about 200,000 hospitalizations…

For years, the advice has been the same – for a healthy heart, eat less red meat. And then, two weeks ago, an international panel of scientists released a…

More than a thousand people have suffered vaping-related lung injury and reports of vaping-related lung illness are now rising by hundreds each week. As…