Health Care

Chuck Faris is officially retiring from Spectrum Health Systems on Friday after 45 years with the nonprofit.

Choosing a pediatrician is an incredibly important choice, but what are the right questions to ask when making your final decision?

During these exciting days of medical innovation, with developments ranging from advanced robotic surgery to nanoparticle-based cancer treatments, it's easy to forget that simple actions can also advance patient care in equally dramatic ways.

Mothers and policy makers are steering away from cesarean delivery.

About 3,300 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Monday voted to authorize what would be the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history.

UMass Memorial Health Care has announced that Lisa Colombo will be the president of Clinton Hospital and Nicole Gagne will become president of Community Healthlink.

UMass Memorial Health Care has put in place a new electronic prescription system that it says will provide for more secure prescribing of opioids and help reduce fraud and doctor shopping.

Boston Scientific is undertaking a restructuring program that officials say could result in as much as $150 million in savings per year, although the company indicated some employees will be phased out as the company focuses on new areas of growth.

Lawmakers dealt a blow last week to a bill that sought to rein in rising prescription drug costs through pricing disclosure mandates, issuing an order calling for further study on the matter.

As tax collections have faltered over the past two months, the Baker administration has confidently asserted that it can "manage through" what has become a $311 million shortfall in revenues with just weeks left until the end of the budget year.