Health Care

At a time when e-cigarettes are under fire for high rates of use by youth and a spike of respiratory illnesses suspected of being connected to vaping, MassHealth is making it easier for people to quit smoking.

Or-Genix Therapeutics, a Worcester-based dermatology company, has scored a partnership with Spain-based Fission Labs for the transfer and development of a topical skin care solution.

A 53,000-square-foot Veterans Affairs outpatient health clinic will be built in a new building planned next to UMass Medical School in Worcester, officials announced Monday.

VERONICA VAN JURA is the new director of marketing at the DCU Center in Worcester, overseeing the...

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester continues to not only treat patients in Central Massachusetts but drive major profits to its Dallas-based owner.

The Cannabis Control Commission is explicitly advising consumers to only buy cannabis products from licensed stores and has recommended that medical marijuana patients who vaporize their medicine contact their doctor to find an alternative.

A Leominster office building recently vacated by Worcester healthcare provider Reliant Medical Group has sold for $2.2 million.

On the heels of the state's new temporary ban on the sale of all vaping products, a legislative committee on Wednesday endorsed a bill prohibiting the sale of all flavored tobacco and Speaker Robert DeLeo suggested the House will develop comprehensive vaping legislation.

The public health director for Framingham, along with MCPHS University, will be honored in November for their community health work by Worcester's Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center.

Three years and two days after Laura Levis died outside a hospital because she could not find the emergency room entrance, her widower, Peter DeMarco, implored lawmakers to pass legislation that would require a range of improvements that could have averted her death.