Health Care

Partners HealthCare is now Mass General Brigham, a brand anchored on the names of its two well-known hospitals.

The mortality rate in Massachusetts has risen 12.1% since 2010, the 13th highest such increase in the country, a startling increase due in large part to the opioid epidemic and a rising suicide rate.

European regulators gave the greenlight to Hologic Inc.’s Localizer, an implanted wireless device that promises to provide doctors greater flexibility to minimize the impact of breast surgery, the company announced Tuesday.

Three-quarters of the way through the year, opioid-related deaths are down in Massachusetts by 6% compared to 2018, the state announced Monday.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation provided 17 Greater Worcester nonprofits $20,000 from its Community Spirit 9/11 grant program.

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As the population in and around Worcester has diversified in recent years, with more newcomers not so fluent in English, the medical community has taken what was once almost an afterthought – interpreter assistance – and made it an essential service.

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.

When they looked in their email a few weeks ago and found subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling's office looking into their relationships with marijuana businesses, leaders in communities across Central Massachusetts, and the rest of the state, were surprised.

Opponents of the Baker administration's temporary ban on all vaping products came out in force Friday to slam the emergency regulation in the only public hearing scheduled on its impact.