Health Care

Two Barnstable County doctors have filed suit in Massachusetts Superior Court for the right to provide medical aid to dying patients, according to the advocacy group representing them.

While the cost of prescription drugs plagues healthcare policy makers working to curb spending, the savings generated by generic drugs have reportedly grown.

State health officials on Thursday gave Boston Children's Hospital the green light to move forward with a controversial $1 billion expansion.

Marlborough drugmaker Sunovion Pharmaceuticals announced Friday it has purchased a company developing a Parkinson's disease treatment for approximately $635 million.

With cost increases outpacing economic growth here, Massachusetts senators will travel to states around the country to study how they are working to control costs in the health care delivery system.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School has joined a $5.5-million phase of a White House program centered around personalized medicine.

The president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care made perfectly clear who he thinks bears significant blame for health care spending that is growing faster than state policymakers would like.

Maynard construction management firm JM Coull broke ground on the $26-million renovation of the Lowell Community Health Center.

A special commission studying health care pricing in Massachusetts discussed the roles employers and health plans should play in terms of narrowing the gap on cost of care.

Marlborough's RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation has entered into an exclusive agreement to purchase Boston-based MirImmune Inc. and announced plans to raise funds for the purchase.