Health Care

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association on Thursday kicked off National Nurses Week with what union President Katie Murphy described as a stop on their "no cupcake tour."

UMass Memorial Health, the largest healthcare provider in Central Massachusetts, on Friday confirmed it is starting its own health insurance division.

Neither Saint Vincent Hospital or its striking nurses reported wins during Wednesday’s bargaining discussion, both sides reported Thursday.

Westborough Behavioral Healthcare Hospital has named Michelle Lynn as its next CEO, effective April 5, the company announced.

A team of researchers including Worcester Polytechnic Institute Biology Professor Pamela Weathers has found that extracts from a medicinal herb known as sweet wormwood can inhibit the COVID-19 virus and two of its recent variants.

The Framingham pharmaceutical firm Alzheon has partnered with the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences to develop a diagnostic assay to measure substances believed to be neurotoxic drivers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

Providers on Monday reported administering 56,515 doses of the three approved COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts -- more than 60 percent of them final doses, the Department of Public Health said Tuesday.

Last month, Senate President Karen Spilka pitched what she described as a "moonshot" -- a long-term effort to reimagine care systems in the state to better to support the people, particularly women, caring for loved ones of all ages and help them stay in the workforce.

Milford life sciences company Waters Corp. reported $148.1 million in profits for the company’s first quarter of 2021, according to an earnings report released Wednesday.

UMass Memorial Health announced on Tuesday it is in the process of closing the DCU Center field hospital for the second time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020.