Health Care

ReWalk Robotics is working with CMS to classify one of its products as artificial legs, which would make it easier for patients to receive its products.

The Massachusetts Legislature's slow-developing plans for a two-year pilot program to expand eligibility for healthcare premium assistance and subsidies came crashing down Wednesday with a veto from Gov. Charlie Baker, who said he prefers maximizing uptake in plans already offered through the Commonwealth Connector Authority.

More than four years after the U.S. Supreme Court said that states could legalize sports wagering, Massachusetts did just that when Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sports betting bill Wednesday afternoon, shifting public attention onto the Gaming Commission's rollout of the newly legal activity.

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp. has received a whistleblower letter saying the company violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in its dealings in Vietnam.

Worcester human services nonprofit Living in Freedom Together Inc. purchased the historic Cambridge Street Firehouse in Worcester to turn into a drop-in shelter for people harmed by the sex trade.

Rentschler Biopharma, a German contract development and manufacturing company with a growing presence in Milford, has added two newly created senior-level positions to its leadership team.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester was awarded a $499,815 Skills Capital Grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to update three nursing labs.

New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company PTC Therapeutics, Inc. has received marketing authorization from the European Commission for a gene therapy treatment manufactured in partnership with MassBiologics of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.

Greater Worcester is ranked among the top 25 life science research talent pools, according to a report from Dallas real estate services and investment firm CBRE Group, Inc. 

Assumption University in Worcester is offering a program called Fast Track to the Pack for high-school students who have not yet entered their senior year to apply for acceptance before the school year begins.