Health Care

Massachusetts moved into a new business reopening phase this week, a year after the coronavirus pandemic first hit the state. Cases are not following the state's hoped-for progress, however.

Marlborough medical device company Boston Scientific has released newly obtained study data speaking to the effectiveness of its TheraSphere Y-90 Glass Microspheres cancer treatment.

First, Saint Vincent Hospital adjusted to the hypervigilance and fortitude needed to make it through the coronavirus pandemic. Then it picked up management and staffing of a vaccination site at Worcester State University — just before facing a strike involving hundreds of nurses.

Employees at UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, will be able to participate in a new state program aimed at keeping workers healthy.

Spectrum Health Systems is working with Tufts Health Plan and a Boston health technology company to provide new ways for people to kick addiction.

Boston Scientific, a medical device manufacturer based in Marlborough, will pay out $188.6 million across 47 states and Washington, D.C., including $2.8 million for Massachusetts.

For more than half a century, Worcester’s Spectrum Health Systems has worked to help those affected by mental health disorders or addiction statewide. The challenge has been made harder during the coronavirus pandemic, with polls showing exceptionally high rates of depression and anxiety.

One very real challenge unique to vaccine distribution, both in Massachusetts and the rest of the country, has centered around overcoming skepticism and assuaging concerns about the relative safety of inoculation.

The Affordable Care Act survived the Trump Administration. Now the vice president who helped get the act passed in 2010 is growing it to provide coverage of more Americans.

Saint Vincent Hospital has reached the two-week mark in a high-profile nurses strike, but it's reached an agreement with a smaller union representing patient care assistants, housekeepers and others.