Health Care

About 42,000 state employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have secured a medical or religious exemption by Oct. 17, or face the risk of consequences including losing their jobs, under an executive order Gov. Charlie Baker signed Thursday.

Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health announced a plan on Wednesday to provide booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to all individuals eight months after they received their second vaccine.

WBJ on Monday announced the recipients of its annual 40 Under Forty awards, honoring up-and-coming business professionals who've already made a significant impact on the Central Massachusetts economy and community.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s largest health insurer, announced Monday a new pharmacy benefit partnership with CVS Caremark, a benefit management subsidiary of CVS Health based in Woonsocket, R.I.

Mustang Bio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company in Worcester, has a license agreement with Minnesota health nonprofit Mayo Clinic for new technology administering cancer treatment, Mustang said a press release Thursday.

Dr. George Abraham, a professor of medicine at UMass Medical School in Worcester, has been named president of the American College of Physicians, the school announced on Friday.

In the week between Aug. 7 and Aug. 14, almost 2,700 fully vaccinated people became infected with COVID-19 in Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health said Tuesday.

You cannot overstate how much the amount of high-quality, talented, and motivated young professionals is growing in Central Massachusetts, and how they are playing a vital role in the region’s future.

Low wages are just one of several compounding factors leading the human services industry into a staffing shortage crisis.

Acton insulin technology delivery Insulet Corp. launched its Omnipod Dash Insulin Management System in Australia on Wednesday, according to a press release.