Health Care

Korry Dow, the interim president of Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer since August, has been named to the post permanently, the hospital said Friday.

Whether technology brings a new approach or replaces a paper-based system, it's being used to support health and well-being in a multitude of ways.

Dr. Beverly Hay, a clinical genetics and pediatrics specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center, helps give meaning to tests that can easily, but not always reliably, tell our genetic history.

Funding cuts to prevention services are one cause for a rise in gonorrhea and other common infections. That's brought a stronger response from health officials in Central Massachusetts.

Loneliness is a particular problem among older adults, carrying major potential health concerns comparable to obesity or smoking cigarettes. Professionals are working to fix that.

Police officers, firefighters and paramedics are overcoming old stigmas in making sure mental health worries from their demanding jobs are addressed.

The first shops are now open, but the medical community is as unsettled as ever on marijuana's benefits and harms, and few know what to expect for health effects in Massachusetts.

The Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center in Gardner has named Charles Murphy as its new executive director.

UMass Memorial Health Care has reached an agreement with a labor union to cover 2,600 workers at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.

Attorney General Maura Healey's Medicaid Fraud Division recovered more than $45 million for the MassHealth program in fiscal year 2018.