BOSTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Public health officials said four Massachusetts children have died of the flu this month.

BOSTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Massachusetts health officials say that the strain of listeria responsible for three deaths has been found on the floor of a dairy linked to the outbreak.

BOSTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A third elderly man has died in an outbreak of listeriosis linked to a central Massachusetts dairy.

BOSTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Test results show the Listeria that has killed two Massachusetts men almost certainly came from a Worcester-area dairy, state health officials said.

BOSTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Massachusetts health officials say an outbreak of listeriosis that killed two elderly men has been traced to a small old-fashioned dairy.

BOSTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Public health officials in Massachusetts are being criticized after the death of a 9-year-old boy from mosquito-borne Eastern equine encephalitis. Relatives of John Fontaine of Middleborough have accused state officials of not beginning aerial spraying of

BOSTON, June 10 (UPI) -- A recent measles outbreak in Boston is blamed on a computer programmer from India, but raises concern that many aren't immune to the disease, a report says.

BOSTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Nurses Association is urging members not to volunteer for President Bush's smallpox vaccination program until problems with the federal-state

Tens of thousands of health-care workers will be among the first to receive smallpox vaccinations under the federal government's plan to protect the public agai