Health Care

Harrington Hospital is now staffing its emergency departments in Southbridge and Webster with a physicians group associated with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

A Massachusetts judge on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that Attorney General Maura Healey brought against the Sackler family, which controls Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma.

The life sciences and prescription drug sectors are pushing back in the wake of another report showing drug costs are helping to drive overall health care costs higher.

The push is on from hospitals and patient advocates for Massachusetts to join a national consortium of 33 states that allow nurses to obtain one license to practice in all participating states, but not everyone thinks it's a good idea.

The registered nurses at Steward Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, who are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, have ratified a new three-year contract.

Seven years after the passage of a landmark health care cost control law, total spending on health care in Massachusetts accelerated faster in 2018 than in recent past years, climbing 3.1% to $60.9 billion.

For much of the past two years, UMass Memorial Medical Center has been overhauling the eighth floor of a building on its University Campus in Worcester, first with a remade psychiatric unit and soon a cancer-specialized medical and surgical unit.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission said in a report Monday a program it launched in 2016 has been effective in reducing hospital stays for infants and the need for pharmacologic therapy for those exposed to opioids in the womb or in withdrawal.

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.