Environmental groups are calling for greater regulation of tiny plastic pellets accumulating in New Hampshire's waterways and elsewhere.
On Monday, President Donald Trump stood beside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for what he called a “historic” announcement on autism.
To control costs, nearly all health insurers use a system called prior authorization, which requires patients or their providers to seek approval before they can get certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions.
Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has put hundreds of rural hospitals at risk of closing their doors because of cuts to Medicaid, including this one in New Hampshire.
After months of informal talks, health officials from 10 Northeastern states have announced they’re forming a bloc called the Northeast Public Health Collaborative to issue vaccine guidance and coordinate public health efforts independent of the federal government. New Hampshire is not among them.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare, has opened a second location for cardiology services, providing patients with expanded options for cardiac care. The clinic is located in the lower level of 15 Durham Road in Dover, just minutes from its freestanding emergency room off Route 16.
A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animals organs really might save human lives.
The 54-year-old New Hampshire man is faring well after his June 14 operation, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Monday.
Health officials are warning Granite Staters to steer clear of a popular roadside spring in Bethlehem after five people got sick with Giardia in late August. At least four of the cases have been linked to water from the natural spring on Old Franconia Road, which flows through a white pipe into a collection bowl by the road.
In the U.S., 20% of Americans live in rural areas, yet only 9% of physicians serve rural areas. In May, the Rural Health Symposium, hosted by Dartmouth Health and the Giesel School of Medicine, brought 271 people from the rural health field to Hanover to address the repercussions of that.
Rep. Ellen Read turned her own struggle for a hysterectomy into legislation, making New Hampshire the first state to guarantee patients’ right to sterilization—a rare expansion of reproductive rights under a Republican governor.
