Health Care

For consumers, voters and industry insiders wondering when the House will pass a major health care bill, the latest timeline from Speaker Robert DeLeo's office is "this session."

A multi-pronged initiative Neighborhood Health Plan announced Friday aims to reduce the number of opioid overdose deaths by increasing access to treatment.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester is opening a new behavioral health wing of its emergency department on Monday as it seeks to meet a growing need.

Fallon Health lost $4.4 million in the first quarter of the year, while Tufts Health Plan lost nearly $27 million as both insurers began operating as part of accountable care organizations.

Prescription drugs, which are eating up more health care dollars, are the target of new cost control efforts by President Donald Trump, who said Friday that fixing "unacceptable" prices is one of his top priorities.

Nearly a year after a Harrington Hospital nurse was stabbed, Harrington and UMass Memorial Medical Center are among the few hospitals in the state to have shored up security.

Nearly 70 percent of the state's population lives in communities that have adopted local policies raising their tobacco-buying age to 21. A bill would extend that age hike statewide.

A House-controlled committee took a step towards establishing mandatory three-day therapy and requiring hospitals to stock medication used as an alternative to street drugs.

Health care giant Partners is exploring a merger with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a major insurer, but is also looking at other possible alliances.

Slowey/McManus Communications, a strategic communications firm based in Boston, has opened a small Worcester office in an effort to branch out to clients in Central Massachusetts.