WBJ Staff

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is warning practitioners of a major spike in congenital syphilis, with more than twice as many babies born with the sexually transmitted infection last year than at any other point in the past two decades.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has begun a pilot testing program using saliva to test for the coronavirus, offering a new method in addition to the more common nasal swab.

Marlborough pharmaceutical firm Sunovion has announced promising results from a study for a bipolar disorder drug, sending development to a third phase of testing.

A retail building with a Dunkin' and a Shell gas station on Lackey Dam Road in Uxbridge has sold for $1.85 million.

The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton will reopen on July 17, Executive Director Kent Russell announced on Monday.

The Seven Hills Foundation has sold for $1.1 million the Milford building where it has held children's aid and family services.

For businesses out there still closed under Gov. Charlie Baker’s March 24 shutdown order, we feel your pain.

Companies with new hires and promotions include UniBank, Vision Advertising, Westfield State University and Bay State Savings Bank, among others.

Amazon has opened what it calls a delivery station in Bellingham: a smaller facility meant to help deliver packages from larger fulfillment centers.

March of Dimes Central Massachusetts in Worcester announced significant changes to its auction format on Wednesday, saying it will hold the events online and donate items to local neonatal intensive care unit nurses in lieu of sending them home with the highest bidder.