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New York requiring paid break time for moms who need to pump breast milk at work, under new law
The law requires employers in the state to provide a half hour of paid break time to workers who need to express breast milk for up to three years after childbirth.
How to tell if you are dehydrated in the extreme heat
This toolkit offers a detailed guide to how much water to drink and other cost-effective ways to stay cool.
Globe Magazine
Why librarians at Harvard and elsewhere are racing to save vintage porn
Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late.
Fauci’s memoir reveals clashes with Trump, other private moments
The call from president Trump arrived Sunday morning, Nov. 1, 2020, two days before Election Day, when voters would decide whether Trump or Biden would occupy the White House.
Boston declares heat emergency, others cancel school ahead of anticipated heat wave
Temperatures are expected to reach the high 90s, and potentially triple digits, before the end of the week.
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act
In a Monday opinion piece in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people.
BUSINESS
Dozens of CVS generic drug recalls expose link to tainted factories
Over the past decade CVS’s store-brand products have been recalled about two times more than those from Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and three times more than those from Walmart Inc., a Bloomberg analysis of public records found.
Brian McGrory
Medical Properties Trust: A place where failure seems to pay
There may not be another group of people in the entire working world who are rewarded better to fail more spectacularly than the fortunate people atop Medical Properties Trust.
Biotech
RI BUSINESSR.I. Life Science Hub picks interim president
Patrice Milos, who has 30 years of experience in the life science industry and was a founding member of RI Bio, will make $25,000 a month as the board searches for a permanent CEO.
Moderna’s flu-COVID combo shot hits goal in late-stage trial
The result brings the Cambridge-based company one step closer to a more convenient jab that could help combat vaccine fatigue.
Cow burps are a major source of methane emissions. A Boston startup is working on a vaccine to fix that.
The methane emitted by the world’s billion-plus belching cattle has roughly the same impact on the climate as all the passenger vehicles on the planet, says Colin South, chief executive of ArkeaBio.
Lifestyle
New York requiring paid break time for moms who need to pump breast milk at work, under new law
The law requires employers in the state to provide a half hour of paid break time to workers who need to express breast milk for up to three years after childbirth.
Globe MagazineWhy librarians at Harvard and elsewhere are racing to save vintage porn
Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late.
Boston declares heat emergency, others cancel school ahead of anticipated heat wave
Temperatures are expected to reach the high 90s, and potentially triple digits, before the end of the week.
Spotlight
How Brigham Health helped create a Chinese hospital for elites — and almost nobody came
In a deal worth millions with Chinese developer Evergrande, a Harvard teaching hospital risked its reputation on what would become a near-empty shell.
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

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High bacteria counts close several Mass. beaches. See the list.

Nineteen beaches in the state, spanning from Boston to Nantucket, are off-limits for swimming, according to data tracked by the state Department of Public Health .

Opioid deaths in Boston rose last year despite a statewide decline

The number of Bostonians dying from opioid-related overdoses throughout the state increased as well.

RI BUSINESS

‘Falling into disrepair’: Two R.I. hospitals riddled with bedbugs, dirty water, and serious safety hazards, court docs say

Conditions at Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, both of which are owned by for-profit Prospect Medical Holdings, are putting patients at risk, according to newly released court documents.

Globe NH | Morning Report

How bad are microplastics in New Hampshire?

New research from the University of New Hampshire has found that some critical New Hampshire waters are littered with microplastics.

COURTS

Owner of 2 safety-net hospitals in R.I. ordered to pay $17m within 10 days

If Prospect Medical Holdings fails to comply with the court order, “we will pursue all available and appropriate remedies,” said Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s spokesman Timothy Rondeau.

HEALTH

Johnson & Johnson settlement includes $14.5m for Mass., $6m for N.H., nearly $7m for R.I.

The awards are part of a $700 million nationwide settlement over the company’s talcum powder products.

Mass. sees largest decline in opioid-related deaths in more than a decade

The state's Black population, however, suffered more opioid-related overdose deaths last year than in any of the previous five years.

NH Health

A top inhaler for children was discontinued. Families and doctors are scrambling to fill the gap.

Some pediatricians say they’ve seen an increase in asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths. Families are facing drug shortages and increased costs as they try to get the inhalers their children need.