Health Care

Marlborough-based Boston Scientific has issued a global recall on its Chariot Guiding Sheath following 14 complaints of failure, including while the device was inside patients, which could lead to obstruction of blood flow causing stroke or kidney damage.

The health care staffing and recruiting firm Barton Associates will hire 63 employees to staff a new Worcester location, set to open in January.

Gov. Charlie Baker's administration is pushing forward with a plan to privatize emergency mental health intervention services...

As participation in an annual survey measuring LGBT equality in the U.S. healthcare system nearly doubled, the...

In November, Dean J. Mazzarella was elected to his 12th two-year term as Leominster mayor, extending his lead as longest serving mayor in the city's 375-year history. This January, when Medford Mayor Michael J. McGlynn retires, Mazzarella officially will be the longest currently serving mayor in Massachusetts.

If you are looking for the true economic and political power in Central Massachusetts, you should start by walking into the Worcester city manager's office at 8:30 a.m. every Friday.

Dr. Eric Dickson never set out to be a hospital administrator, but leadership roles have tended to fall into his lap as he practiced as an emergency room physician over the years, thanks to his take-charge nature.

Leading research and public health outreach efforts both locally and globally, the University of Massachusetts Medical School does much more than educate medical students.

To call Chip Norton a fresh face to Central Massachusetts is a little bit of a misnomer, since he has owned and/or developed several multi-million real estate projects in the region for years, but he was largely working behind the scenes until late October when his firm purchased two Front Street office towers in Worcester for $33 million.

Power comes in many forms, but from power derives influence; and how people use that influence is ultimately reflective of the power they hold.