HEALTH

'EVERY PATIENT SHOULD BE TREATED: Dr. Tine Vindenes, co-directs the Tuberculosis Clinic at Tufts. If trends in tuberculosis rates continue, more than 10 million people worldwide will be diagnosed with the bacterial disease this year and 1.5 million will die from it. Many will remain "silent" carriers. And despite its world-class medicine and healthcare, Massachusetts won't be immune to the spread. Numbers are rising here, with 254 cases in 2024. So, as World Tuberculosis Day

Tufts Medical Center has awarded more than $1.7 million in grants to nine Boston-based nonprofit organizations, including several in Chinatown. The medical center says the grants will be used over three years to address “unmet” health and health access needs that were highlighted in its 2026-2028 Community Health Needs Assessment. Through the grants, the community groups will support culturally competent behavioral health, social-emotional wellness, and substance use disorder

Tufts Medical Center in Boston has opened an expanded Pediatric Asian clinic that it says will better serve thousands of Asian children and families in the area.

When funding for SNAP food and nutrition help for poor and struggling families was in jeopardy, community groups came together to help.

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

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