Health Care

Enrollment in MassHealth, the state's Medicaid program, has spiked by about 63,000 people since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Massachusetts in March, but the overall number of people with health insurance in Massachusetts has remained relatively stable and employer-sponsored coverage has not declined as fast as job losses might indicate.

A biotechnology arm of the UMass Medical School has signed an agreement with a New Jersey pharmaceutical company to make investigational new drugs and commercial pharmaceutical products.

Marlborough diagnostics company Oxford Immunotec, which is also headquartered in the United Kingdom, has teamed up with Public Health England, an executive agency of the UK’s Department for Health and Social Care, to conduct research around at-home COVID-19 tests.

Milford life sciences company Waters Corp. will open a research laboratory in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, the company announced on Tuesday.

Reliant Medical Group, a major tenant at the Mercantile Center office tower in downtown Worcester, has renewed a lease for 55,000 square feet of space, the building's owner announced Tuesday.

Coronavirus cases in Worcester County rose by 249 in the past week and the death count by 15, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Bob Martel, a frequent guest advice columnist for Worcester Business Journal, has published a book about how people can make transformational change by using the power of storytelling.

UMass Medical School in Worcester is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University on two new coronavirus treatment and prevention studies using convalescent plasma.

Ascentria Care Alliance, a Worcester social services nonprofit, has appointed three new members of its board of directors.

Harrington HealthCare System has expanded its public coronavirus testing with a new test location at its Webster campus.