Monica Benevides

UMass Chan Medical School researcher Zaida Ramirez-Ortiz, an assistant professor of medicine, has received a 2021 Lupus Innovation Award from the Lupus Research Alliance, according to an announcement on the UMass Chan website Wednesday.

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester are beginning phase II clinical trials of the Moderna COVID-19 booster shots in adults.

The rule in question pertains to how health insurers and healthcare providers who aren’t under contract with the insurer must manage disputes over payments for services resulting in surprise medical bills.

Retail parent company TJX Cos., headquartered in Framingham, will ask its U.S. office employees to work remotely for the last week of December and first week of January, the company confirmed Tuesday morning.

Central Massachusetts financial institutions St. Mary's Credit Union, Avidia Bank, and Rockland Trust were the top lenders of federal small business loans to three key Massachusetts industries for fiscal 2021.

Eleven Central Massachusetts communities are receiving a portion of the 2.1-million at-home COVID tests set to be distributed by the Gov. Charlie Baker administration, per a Monday announcement.

The healthcare system is in a moment of transition, according to panelists and speakers at WBJ’s annual Health Care Forum.

The Gov. Charlie Baker administration signed off on a 10-year tax-increment-financing agreement for a forthcoming Amazon distribution center in Charlton, according to a Thursday press release.

Clean energy company Ameresco, of Framingham, has completed a lighting project as part of an ongoing project relationship with Hazelwood School District in St. Louis County.

The Herb Chambers auto dealership chain is seeking permission to open a Mercedes-Benz dealership at 141 Boston Post Road in Sudbury, near a small cluster of pre-existing Herb-Chambers dealerships.