Health Care

15-40 Connection of Westborough, a national education and advocacy nonprofit teaching people how to detect cancer earlier, is rebranding as DetecTogether and expanding its work to people of all ages, the organization announced on Thursday.

The post-Christmas business restrictions put in place by Gov. Charlie Baker to prevent a worst-case holiday surge of COVID-19 will be extended at least an additional two weeks as the number of daily new cases of the virus in Massachusetts and the rise in hospitalizations continue to ring alarm bells.

New coronavirus cases in Worcester County have again broken a record, and this time deaths are also on the rise, according to new Massachusetts Department of Public Health data.

Framingham life science consulting firm Alira Health announced Thursday it has acquired Chamow and Associates, a California-based CMC advisory firm.

Hologic is continuing its acquisition spree with an agreement to purchase San Diego cancer test firm Biotheranostics for $230 million, the Marlborough company announced late on Monday.

More than 150 UMass Medical School students are being trained to help quickly administer COVID-19 vaccinations in Worcester.

As the nation reels in the wake of a violent and deadly mob breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, leadership in and around the Central Mass. business community condemned the violence and called for healing.

More than one-third of the inmate population at a federal prison in Devens have tested positive for coronavirus, with the area's two U.S. representatives requesting immediate action to stop the spread.

Massachusetts hasn't suffered only from the coronavirus pandemic in the past year, but also a rise in another major cause of death: diabetes.

The biotech company LakePharma has signed a partnership agreement with a North Shore therapeutics company to jointly develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine and produce it at its Hopkinton facility.