Health Care

More than 100 doctors and health care professionals from around Massachusetts signed onto an open letter urging state lawmakers to sink proposed bills that would open the door to allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of chemicals for terminally ill patients.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has chosen UMass Memorial Medical Center as a Blue Distinction Center for numerous specialties in their Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.

UMass Memorial Health Care has named a new chief philanthropy officer to lead its new fundraising division.

Undeterred by the threat of the global coronavirus outbreak, thousands of researchers who specialize in viruses and the spread of infections will descend on Boston beginning Sunday for a conference organized by the International Antiviral Society.

Member firms of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council have a new benefit thanks to an agreement the council signed for health insurance coverage.

Allurion Technologies, a Natick company developing a weight-loss balloon for the American market, chose World Obesity Day on Wednesday to announce an ambitious goal: treating 40,000 people by the end of the year.

A new testing process for coronavirus begun Friday has found its first positive test in Massachusetts, the state Department of Public Health said late Monday.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has canceled summer programs in China and Taiwan out of concern of risks associated with coronavirus and is requiring students in Bangkok to head home.

Aramark, a national food services company, at the end of March will lay off 64 workers at a Reliant Medical Group facility in Auburn.

Assumption College is temporarily shutting its Rome campus as the coronavirus outbreak has forced cautionary action in Italy.