Health Care

The Briarwood Community, a senior living center in Worcester, has completed a $23-million expansion, adding 24 apartments.

ZATA Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage Worcester startup developing a technology for sterilizing blood for transfusion, and FoodPhone, a Hopkinton firm that has developed a phone technology analyzing food, have been honored in a New England startup competition.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is adding a master's degree in neuroscience to prepare students in jobs such as neuroscience research, pharmaceuticals and teaching.

Thousands of people prescribed Purdue Pharma opioids like OxyContin will die of overdoses while the company pursues...

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Seven Hills Foundation has plans to revisit its influential 2015 report, which found foreign-born residents accounted for 37% of all business owners in Worcester and spent an estimated $472 million across the local economy that year.

More than five decades ago, the first U.S. surgeon general’s report warned against the health hazards of smoking. But it wasn’t until much more recently screening for lung cancer became a reliable tool. The Harrington HealthCare System is on the forefront.

With the population in Massachusetts, and across the country, aging, the demand is growing for all sorts of health services, and as is the need to find people for these jobs.

After two decades, the Healing Garden has evolved into a place where anyone fighting cancer can participate in a meditation, yoga, knitting or writing class, or take part in group mindfulness session or another on living a life of meaning.

This year has been turbulent for the vaping industry nationwide: more than 2,000 have been sickened with a lung illness traced to vaping, and 42 have died.