Monica Benevides

Affyimmune Therapeutics, Inc., a Natick-based clinical stage biotech company specializing in solid cancer treatment, has named biotech entrepreneur and executive Robert Forrester to its board of directors.

A Sept. 22 study released by Worcester-based nonprofit Wake Up Narcolepsy has found physicians in and around Boston may know less about diagnosing narcolepsy than they think they do.

Marlborough-based medical technology company Hologic’s second annual Global Women’s Health Index reveals a lack of progress in women’s health care indicators worldwide.

Fallon Health has awarded $150,000 across 13 organizations as part of its 2022 Community Impact Grants.

UMass Memorial Health-Harrington, in Southbridge, has launched a behavioral health emergency service pod.

The board of directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has named its first female CEO, Sarah Iselin, the Boston-based health insurer announced at the end of August.

While demand for affordable housing outstrips available units and rents continue to rise, homelessness rates in Central Massachusetts are skyrocketing. 

Gauri Bhalakia, president of both ARCpoint Labs of Southboro-Framingham and ARCpoint Labs of Worcester, started the business in 2016.

Scientists at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester have developed a web application which will allow researchers and public health officials to track variants and clinical information about COVID-19 in Central Massachusetts, the medical school said on Thursday.

The couples were pulled from a larger study of pregnant patients who received outpatient care at UMass Memorial Medical Center.