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The nonprofit Health Uganda is providing needed scopes and other medical devices to boost healthcare in southern Uganda.

E ach weekday for several years, Macki Mei would take the 40-minute subway ride from her childhood home in Dorchester to Chinatown, where...

Over a hundred healthcare workers joined the American-Chinese Medical Exchange Society’s annual meeting at the Sherman Auditorium in Beth...

Sudden cardiac arrest is an unpredictable emergency. Every year in the United States, there are more than 35,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), yet the overall survival rate is only about 10%. This means that out of 10 people who collapse, perhaps only one will survive. Unfortunately, in emergency situations, many bystanders are left unsure of what to do due to a lack of CPR knowledge—missing the best window for saving a life.

A news report on GBH posted recently caught our attention. The story was about how the head of a national media company, Brian Timpone,...

F ear can be a powerful weapon against a people’s freedoms. And what better way to spread fear than to make an example of those who speak...

In an interview with the Sampan about her personal and professional life, Dr. Xue-Jun Kong spoke about her son, now 28 years old and pursing a graduate degree in mathematics, as well as her goals and focus areas in autism research, including founding the Synapse Lab for Autism Research at MGH and Boston Children's Hospital.

Massachusetts has had only eight cases total from 2015 till now, with several zero-case years. But with concerns around vaccine skepticism and a surge in measles cases nationwide, some are worried about the potential for this preventable disease and others to make a comeback.

I n a neighborhood starved of both new affordable housing and greenery, a development project has forced residents and activists to...

City Seeks Legacy Business Nominees The City of Boston is seeking applications for the Legacy Business Program, in which the city...

P olitical life in these United States since January 20th has proved conclusively that nothing really happens by random chaos. There is...

Most people know Suzanne Lee for two things: her career in the Boston Public Schools system, and her work building organizations in Chinatown. Today, she is the president emeritus of the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), board president of the Chinatown Community Land Trust, and a well-recognized and -loved leader in the community. Here is her story. 

Boston-based furniture artist draws from classical Chinese designs, tradition and craftsmanship F or wood sculptor Hugo Nakashima-Brown ,...

Courtesy photo: #FoodBankInfluencer J ust minutes into an interview with comedian and activist Kristina Wong about her upcoming Boston...

Cannon Hersey speaks at 'Branches of Hope'. Photo by Adam Smith. A small Japanese woman with thin wire-framed glasses appeared on...

A cross Massachusetts, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are often the first people families turn to in times of crisis. Whether someone is...

A fter moving to the United States with his family in the 1980s, Kuang Ching Mei led a life like so many of his peers of his time. Born ...

T he news can seem overwhelming. A former seasonal police officer in Maine is left to “self deport” after getting detained by immigration...

Photo Credit by Adam Smith Amy Guen has been interviewed enough times to know how the process works. Sitting at Jiangnan, a Chinese...

Photo credit by Adam Smith For decades, Josiah Quincy was seen as a cultural resource for Boston. Now, new city policies and demographic shifts are limiting who can access the institution T he Josiah Quincy Elementary School has been a core part of the Chinatown community since its modern iteration opened nearly a half century ago. But to simply refer to it as a school would not tell you the full story. Josiah Quincy Elementary — which technically was founded in 1847 — was bu