Singer Judy Collins wins an award from McLean Hospital for speaking out about mental health and addiction, including her own alcoholism and depression and her son’s 1992 suicide.

If they’re so effective, why aren’t more women using IUDs and implants? A health clinic in Worcester is getting help to put better birth control front and center — particularly long-acting birth control, in hopes of cutting the high rate of unintended pregnancy.

Coming soon from WBUR: A lively new podcast called “The Magic Pill,” a daily dose of get up and go — it mixes compelling stories, fascinating facts and gotta-move music to help you do just about the best thing for your health: move more.

The patient is 64-year-old Thomas Manning from the South Shore town of Halifax.

Research has suggested that exercise does not offset the potential health harms of prolonged sitting, but a new Norwegian study suggests that exercise is in fact protective — if you do it hard enough to improve your fitness level.

A new Harvard study finds that, contrary to hopes and expectations, helping people shop for health care does not bring down costs — in fact, shopping may even lead people to spend slightly more.

After she started a job with an hour-plus commute, a Boston-area woman gained 40 pounds and got back pain and high blood pressure. She’s a textbook case of the growing research on how long commutes can harm our health.

A new study suggests there are “genetic superheroes” — rare people whose genes suggest they should be sick or dead, but aren’t. An expert says we should be careful about acting on our genetic data, and we desperately need more research to match genes with medical records.

Would you like to share some of your own fitness/exercise lessons to help and inspire others? Record a voice memo and send it to Carey Goldberg for a podcast now in development.

As WBUR begins to develop a fitness podcast, we’re inviting you to nominate someone you know as a “fitness inspiration” who could be featured in an episode or post.

Boston’s Museum of Science begins renovation on its huge lobby in what officials are calling the building’s most dramatic change since it was built in 1949.

Lyme is not the only tickborne disease worth worrying about. There are several other diseases that, although less common than Lyme, can make people quite sick.

The most thorough report yet on the state of New England plant life includes climate change as one of the threats the plants face; already, global warming has led to earlier bloom times for flowering plants like lilacs, and if current trends continue, in 50 years Massachusetts could have the climate of current-day Georgia.

Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov seems to be saying, “Don’t blame Chechnya.” He also points the finger at America. The text is translated from Russian.

From the major Russian newspaper Izvestia: Izvestia has learned that the suspect in the Boston terrorist acts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, did come to America from Makhachala.

To all appearances, this image is a social media page created on V Kontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, early last year, and purports to belong to Djohar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

What does it mean to grow up gaming? Critics warn that games may be addictive and lead to aggression. Supporters say that games may be the best educational tools ever.

It’s hard to tell exactly how much Lyme disease there is in Massachusetts, but an estimated 1 in 100 people get it each year in most areas.

Lincoln is one of the richest towns in the U.S. But Lincoln’s wealth has provided no immunity to a disease that is spreading dramatically across Massachusetts: Lyme disease.

A list of resources for more comprehensive information about Lyme disease.

The Massachusetts Senate rolled out its proposal for health care cost control Wednesday. It follows a similar plan the House released Friday.