As the coronavirus stretches New York City emergency rooms and paramedics to their limits, a regional EMT group has issued new guidelines almost unthinkable even days ago — if someone’s in cardiac arrest and you can’t revive them in the field, don’t bring them to the emergency room. The newly implemented order that takes effect Thursday was implemented in...

The Department of Defense released footage from inside the USNS Mercy, the Navy hospital ship docked in Los Angeles to help during the coronavirus pandemic.

Just before we launched the new NBC10 Boston a few years ago, I was rushing around our house before a team promotion shoot. Summer was fading to fall, and I went to take our air conditioner out of our window before work. Long story short, my wife told me to “slow down” and think before I started. Well, I threw…

Closures, cutbacks and cancellations continue to mount as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads in the U.S. Major cities and small towns alike are practically shutting down, leaving businesses, restaurants and even beaches mostly empty. But despite unparalleled efforts to limit crowds and contact, the illness is still spreading quickly.

A 41-year-old Mattapan man was killed by police after he shot a hospital valet attendant and attacked a police officer, police said.

A Vermont hospital is preparing to reopen surgical facilities that had to temporarily close after a mysterious smell left some employees reporting they felt ill. “I think we’re all ready to get back to our familiar routine,” said Gwen Eckley, an operating room nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Fanny Allen campus in Colchester. Eckley became a...

A Vermont hospital is rebounding after a mysterious smell left it scrambling to reschedule surgeries for patients.

An influx of patients reporting flu-like symptoms is overcrowding emergency rooms in Boston and across the region, forcing doctors to issue a plea to the public. Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said its emergency department has been inundated with patients potentially infected with the flu, which often leads to longer wait times and sometimes forces doctors to treat...

A Worcester, Massachusetts, fire lieutenant died early Wednesday as he and his crew attempted to save a baby and others from a raging fire. Chief Michael Lavoie said in a press conference that Lt. Jason Menard, a father of three, succumbed to his injuries after his “heroic efforts” to save people in the four-alarm fire at 7 Stockholm Street.

A 6-year-old Worcester boy waiting for a new heart is asking the community to send him cards to help lift his spirits. Carlos Rolon, who was born with a congenital heart disease, will spend the holidays at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been through many procedures and surgeries. In a video posted to Facebook by his mother, Sheena Cossette,...

A man in his 60s was assaulted at a park in Cambridge. He was pronounced dead by the Middlesex County District Attorney Wednesday.

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

The death of Worcester Fire Lt. Jason Menard early Wednesday in an apartment blaze was a stark reminder of the city’s history of tragic fires. Menard, a father of three, died saving members of Ladder 5, who were responding to reports of a trapped baby on the third floor of an apartment building on Stockholm Street.

Crews battled a fire in Worcester, Massachusetts Wednesday, hours after a fire lieutenant tragically died in another blaze. The fire appeared to have damaged businesses, including a pet shop, on the 1100 block of Pleasant Street Wednesday morning.

A Worcester Fire Department lieutenant died battling an early morning blaze at a home on Stockholm Street.

Up to 15 residents are displaced and several people were hospitalized in an roaring 4-alarm house fire in Worcester, Massachusetts amid frigid weather conditions.

An elderly couple has died following a two-vehicle crash in Plainville. Police say it happened Monday afternoon when a man driving a car tried to turn around on Taunton Street and collided with a van that was traveling behind the car.

An elderly couple has died following a two-vehicle crash in Plainville. Police say it happened Monday afternoon when a man driving a car tried to turn around on Taunton Street and collided with a van that was traveling behind the car.

One person has died and two others were seriously injured in a rollover crash on Storrow Drive in Boston early Friday. Authorities said the driver, a 27-year-old Stoughton man named Alexander Galanis, was pronounced dead after being transported to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Seven people were hospitalized Tuesday after a 3-alarm fire ripped through a Worcester home. The blaze was reported at about 2 a.m. at a home on Merrifield Street, according to fire officials. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found heavy smoke coming from the second floor of the multi-family house.