WBJ Staff

Three substance abuse treatment and recovery centers in Central Massachusetts have been included in a new mark of distinction by the insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

For more than two decades, the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester has been awarded for its ambulatory care. Now, it's adding behavioral care to the list.

Massachusetts residents spent $10 billion on prescription drugs at pharmacies in 2018, according to a report Thursday by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis.

The corporate owner of Franklin's Garelick Farms has agreed to sell most of its assets to a major national milk cooperative, three months after its bankruptcy filing.

Worcester Sand & Gravel has sold its Shrewsbury property for $7.45 million but will continue operating at the site.

Fast-food chain Wendy’s has entered into a $400,000 settlement with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey to resolve a complaint of alleged violations of child labor laws, which originated out of a Wendy’s in Worcester but related to the company’s 46 corporate-owned locations throughout the state.

Hopkinton biopharmaceutical company Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals reported increased losses in the fourth quarter, in the first report since the company announced it would cease development of a treatment for chronic hepatitis B after a patient died during a trial.

Marlborough manufacturing support company TASI Group has acquired Cassel Messtechnik GmbH of Hanover, Germany in a move the Massachusetts company says will allow it to expand its global product testing segment.

Worcester Business Journal publishes a podcast every Monday called The Weekly Business Report, a forward-looking news segment designed to make Central Massachusetts business professional informed about what is going to happen in the local economy.

The time may have come for Massachusetts to consider adopting a law similar to ones in California and Western Europe, either requiring or recommending public companies have a certain number of women on their boards of directors.