Health Care

Ken Bates, the CEO of Worcester nonprofit Open Sky Community Services, has been named the new chair of the Association for Behavioral Healthcare, a statewide nonprofit organization representing 81 community-based behavioral healthcare providers. 

AdCare Hospital unveiled a new logo Wednesday to grace all its locations, a new branding effort paying homage to the city of Worcester, where the addiction treatment center is headquartered. 

Worcester life sciences firm Mustang Bio reached a significant milestone for its new treatment for a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as the U.S. Food & Drug Administration granted its orphan drug designation for the project.

When Mary J. Blige embarks on the first leg of her Good Morning Gorgeous tour in September, she’ll be doing so with the sponsorship of Marlborough-based Hologic, Inc. 

Vaping has been out of the headlines for a while, as the nation’s attention turned to a more urgent respiratory issue known as COVID-19.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Integrated Circuits and System Lab and its director, Ulkuhan Guler, are probing the leading edge of new means to enhance medical care and wellness through microelectronics.

COVID-19 continues to shape the healthcare landscape across Central Massachusetts, as hospitals grapple with soaring costs and staffing shortages.

The right to an abortion is codified into Massachusetts law, even if Roe v. Wade gets overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court later this summer.

It’s been more than two years since COVID-19 first wreaked havoc across the globe. Despite this, the pandemic rages on across Central Massachusetts for a third summer.

Worcester-based Fallon Health announced on Wednesday that it was appointing two of its staff into senior executive positions, with Dr. David Brumley named as chief medical officer, as well as Kristine Bostek to senior vice president of its PACE program division.