Health Care

UMass Memorial Medical Center has purchased a robotic surgical assistant that will help neurosurgeons with complex procedures.

The New England Center for Children, a Southborough children's autism services and research center, has received a $3.4-million software and services donation from Microsoft.

Staff at Clark University have proposed a new master's degree in global and community health, as the school consolidates its public health offerings under a single umbrella.

As Pennsylvania-based Recovery Centers of America (RCA) continues a $231.5-million expansion into the northeast, it has named the new CEO of its Westminster location.

Hudson's Precision Coating is establishing its first manufacturing operations outside the U.S. with a new 14,000-square-foot plant in Costa Rica that will be up and running by the end of the month.

A group of senators plans to travel in the fall to explore strategies used by other states to keep health care costs in check, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Tuesday.

All but two acute care hospitals in Central Massachusetts reported year-over-year profits for the first three months of 2016, according to a report from a state agency that tracks hospital financials.

The profitability of 63 acute care hospitals in Massachusetts was stable for the period ending March 31, 2016.

A new study of home care costs reports they are holding steady in Massachusetts for 2016, but nursing home care remains much more expensive than the rest of the country.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care on Monday announced deals with pharmaceutical companies that will allow the insurer to pay for drugs based on patient outcomes.