Liz Kowalczyk

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Liz Kowalczyk

Last April, Rory McCarthy and her mother walked into their state representative’s monthly office hours and asked if there was a private room where they could talk. Over the next hour, McCarthy, 31, relayed a startling story about her former rheumatologist, Dr. Derrick Todd.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Liz Kowalczyk

When the Trump administration announced a review of $9 billion of federal funding for Harvard and its affiliated institutions this week, it did not specify which research projects might be targeted. It lists more than $255 million of contracts included in the review, most of them for health and medicine research projects. One contract with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is worth nearly $60 million and provides funding for research on tuberculosis at 14 labs across the country.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres |Liz Kowalczyk |Jonathan Saltzman |Mike Damiano |Neena Hagen

The review includes $255.6 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments, according to the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force. According to current and former administrators at Harvard and affiliated institutions, as well as members of the Trump task force, the review appears to encompass all active federal research grants and contracts to Harvard and its affiliates.

1 month ago | statnews.com | Liz Kowalczyk

Day or night, Marc Cohen, a major donor to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, had a direct line to one of its leading oncologists. No question was too big or too small, and almost no hour was off limits for a consultation. Cohen and his doctor, Kenneth C. Anderson, exchanged hundreds of emails and texts over two decades about Cohen’s disease, multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer that is Anderson’s specialty.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Liz Kowalczyk

As a result, Dana-Farber said it did not have any medical records of Anderson’s cancer care to share with Cohen’s family, records that could shed light on the treatment he received in his final days. Now Cohen’s brother has filed a complaint against the esteemed oncologist with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, contending that Anderson’s failure to keep medical records violated state regulations and ethical standards for physicians.