Health Care

As a family nurse practitioner and an assistant medical director at Kennedy Community Health Center, Abigail Mathews straddles both the agency's administrative and patient-facing operations.

Twenty-five thousand low-income seniors in Massachusetts would be newly eligible for help paying for health care under a measure Gov. Charlie Baker plans to include in his 2020 budget proposal.

Definitive Healthcare, a Framingham health data analysis firm, said Wednesday it has acquired a similar firm in Vermont.

Two Worcester health treatment centers, at UMass Memorial Medical Center and Community Healthlink, will receive help for those who work with patients to overcome addiction.

New efforts are being made in Massachusetts to help lawyers with addiction or struggling with depression after a 2016 study raised alarms.

Community Healthlink, a Worcester treatment center, is due to restore its around-the-clock availability after receiving a grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.

Confidence levels among Massachusetts employers hit a two-year low in December.

Local health officials are working to prevent the spread of infections, particularly HIV and hepatitis C, through infected needles, another consequence of the opioid crisis.

Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday doled out $3 million in grant funding to help community organizations address issues in society that affect people's health.

National Grid gas workers who have been locked out since June are set to be back on the job later this month.