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Starting April 1, Massachusetts health care providers and labs will be required to alert the state when they encounter cases of the tick-borne allergy alpha-gal syndrome.

Mental illness and stigma: a discussion on The Point's monthly behavioral health program.

For the health study, researchers will place air monitors in several locations around the community. Then, they'll compare people who live in the most highly affected areas with a control group.

Right here on the Upper Cape there is a group who suit up for 30 to 40 minutes of open water ocean swimming, year-round.

CAI reporter Jennette Barnes interviews Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences at Harvard, on new research about cancer risk near nuclear power plants.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has committed to provide a speaker to review relevant cancer studies at a future meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens' Advisory Panel.

Kratom and its synthetic derivative 7-OH are sold at gas stations and convenience stores across the country. Some say it helps with pain. Others say it's addictive.

Amid threats from the federal government, Outer Cape Health Services is no longer offering gender-affirming puberty blockers or hormone therapy for those under 19.

New Bedford faces growing environmental and health concerns as it becomes the most waste-burdened city in Massachusetts. Residents and advocates link nearby landfills to a rise in cancer cases and are calling for stronger environmental justice protections.

One expert says scientists don't really know if it's a bad tick year, but regardless, we should know how to prevent bites.