Isabel Tehan

Marlborough-based Hologic, a medical technology firm specializing in women’s health, has entered into a partnership with international pharmaceutical firm Bayer to provide enhanced imaging mammogram services. 

Advocates working to prevent UMass Memorial Health from closing its birthing unit at HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster are doubling down their efforts in the last days before the planned closure, attempting to persuade Gov. Maura Healey to issue a stay to keep it open.

Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives in Worcester, a life science incubator, has been selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a stage two winner of its 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition.

Unionized workers at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts have voted to ratify a new contract to allow for a $2.50 per hour wage increase, added anti-discrimination protections, and increased parental leave.

The Worcester Guardian, a new digital news organization being launched by the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, has hired its first editor.

Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts remained virtually unchanged from July to August, continuing the summer’s trend of low unemployment across the region, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

UMass Memorial Health has received $153,824 in a combined grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, Reliant Foundation, and RIZE Massachusetts for an opioid-use disorder education program targeted at prescribers.

The City of Worcester opened its search for a chief equity officer on Friday, looking to fill a role vacant since spring 2022 and after a substantial restructuring.

Hospital systems are waiting, monitoring, and responding as COVID cases rise, even as they remain far below peak levels.

After 48 years with its founder as CEO, The New England Center for Children has a clinician as its new leader.