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By SRUTHIGOPALAKRISHNAN

A half-eaten container of yogurt still sits in the fridge. A “Bluey” bike leans against the back door, and a small watering can rests untouched nearby, each item an aching reminder of the life that filled Bill Byrne’s home in Pembroke, N.H., less than a week ago.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In New Hampshire, one in four adults over the age of 65 lives alone, putting them at greater risk of social isolation and its negative impacts on both mental and physical health, according to a recent study.

By TOM MURPHY

Rite Aid customers can expect their local store to close or change ownership in the next few months, as the struggling drugstore chain goes through another bankruptcy filing.

By LIORA ENGEL

Last summer, around the time Cheshire Medical Center nurse Steven Finnell allegedly began taking painkillers meant for patients, officials from the Keene hospital asked state regulators to lift sanctions put in place to prevent drug diversion, regulatory documents show. The state Board of Pharmacy agreed.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will begin accepting patients to a new inpatient psychiatric ward for teenagers next week amid a rising need for mental health services nationwide.

By ALEX HANSON

LEBANON — A brief tour and meeting Thursday between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and officials from Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth College put into stark relief the many ways in which the Trump Administration is disrupting health care and medical research.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A navy blue van has been making its way across New Hampshire for the past two years, stocked with naloxone, syringes, fentanyl test strips, condoms and other supplies meeting people where they are and helping to prevent overdoses and infections.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Armed security guards will become a new presence at New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric facility in Concord following a fatal shooting in November 2023, when a security guard stationed in the hospital lobby was killed by a former patient at the hospital.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Psychiatrist John Hinck was on duty at New Hampshire Hospital on November 17, 2023, when gunfire shattered the routine of the state’s largest psychiatric facility. He recalled sheltering in place with the staff and patients, only to find later security officer Bradley Haas killed in the lobby.

By TODD BOOKMAN

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office says Dartmouth Health is cooperating with a review of its vaccination policies that may violate state law.

By ETHAN DEWITT

A week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order eliminating federal support for gender-affirming care for minors under 19, New Hampshire hospitals are taking a “wait-and-see” approach before changing any policies.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At age 75, Rep Bob Lynn says he loves life. But he knows he’s no “spring chicken” and his days are finite.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A man from Salem, N.H., said he’s never felt whole since he was circumcised as a baby and has spent his adult life trying to reverse the procedure.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The issue of medical debt is personal to Hartford native state Sen. Becca White, D-Windsor.

By PAUL-CUNO BOOTH

Dartmouth Health will no longer require someone to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before receiving a kidney transplant, after the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office intervened on behalf of a patient.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — An Upper Valley nonprofit is renewing its efforts to build a residential substance use treatment center for mothers and their children in a new location near Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, though it may still have a long way to go.

By JIM KENYON

In early January 1986 — four years after the first “test-tube” baby was born in the U.S. — news broke in the Upper Valley that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was starting its own in vitro fertilization program.

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

State officials have cleared the way for HCA Healthcare to buy Catholic Medical Center, the latest in a series of hospital mergers and acquisitions reshaping New Hampshire’s medical landscape.The Manchester hospital says it’s struggling financially,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A former Claremont doctor has been been sentenced up to a year in county jail after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a female patient during an office visit two years ago.Under a plea bargain with Sullivan County prosecutors, Thomas...