Chris Serres
Addiction Reporter at The Boston Globe
Reporter for the Star Tribune covering Social Services [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
In a harshly worded ruling Monday, a federal judge in Boston accused the Trump administration of racial discrimination and ordered the world’s largest funder of biomedical research to reinstate scores of research grants that were terminated by the National Institutes of Health, declaring the grant terminations “illegal and void.” US District Court Judge William Young expressed a mix of anger and frustration from the bench over what he described as “palpably clear” discrimination by the Trump...
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
On paper, Martin Kulldorff is an ideal choice for an influential national panel on vaccines. Nonetheless, when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week picked Kulldorff for a panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on immunizations, his name sparked immediate controversy. Multiple media outlets rushed to label Kulldorff an “anti-vaxxer” who opposed lockdown measures.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
Nothing stuck until Pagan, a 36-year-old personal caregiver from Revere, learned late last year of an innovative new program at Boston Medical Center that gave her a financial incentive to stay sober. Every time she took a drug test that was free of cocaine, showed up for a recovery group meeting, or engaged in physical exercise, Pagan was rewarded with $5 loaded onto a debit card.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
The number of people who died last year in Massachusetts from drug overdoses plummeted to the lowest level in more than a decade, the most promising sign yet that the state is making progress against what was once seen as an intractable public health crisis. New provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 33 percent drop statewide in 2024, with 1,596 people succumbing to fatal overdoses.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered that Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia who was detained for bringing biological specimens into the country, be released from immigration custody. Kseniia Petrova, 31, has been held in Louisiana since Feb. 16, when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport for failing to declare frog embryos that she was carrying in her luggage.
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