Health Care

The measure would establish licensed facilities where people could buy and take the drugs under supervision, and Bay Staters would also be permitted to grow and use them at home.

Health care spending in Massachusetts continued to grow faster than household incomes, according to new research, fueling concerns about access to care even before accounting for more recent upheaval inflicted by Steward Health Care's bankruptcy.

The Gov. Maura Healey Administration has 32 officials to a working group assembled to address the healthcare needs of a region now left without a hospital. 

Two future birth centers in Worcester and Boston have secured state funding to help cover the costs...

A new urgent care option has arrived in Central Massachusetts as New Hampshire-based ConvenientMD has opened its second Worcester clinic located at 18 Belmont Ave.

Steward Health Care's retreat from Massachusetts is continuing, with the bankrupt company officially moving in court Monday to abandon the under-construction Norwood Hospital property and close four affiliated outpatient clinics nearby no later than Nov. 5.

Victor Ambros, a scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA. 

Voting is now open for WBJ’s 11th annual Best of Business Awards.

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DPH has launched an investigation into three Central Massachusetts hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare.