Health Care

Central Massachusetts, especially Worcester, is home to a number of nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations. Last year, more than 30 percent of all land in the city was tax exempt.

It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is creating new business for architects and construction companies.

The state on Wednesday announced it won a $3 million federal grant to assist pregnant women with opioid disorders.

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corp., a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Marlborough, has cut second quarter losses and secured an additional year of cash as it continues to advance its clinical and preclinical pipeline.

Widespread consolidation is changing the health care landscape across Massachusetts, but the trend isn't unique to the Bay State. In Connecticut, medical society membership is becoming anemic as small physician practices are scooped up by larger organizations.

A University of Massachusetts Medical School study measuring the usefulness of Google Glass in emergency room toxicology consults is adding to speculation that the wearable device may be a good fit for the health care industry.

Life sciences firm Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology of Holliston will work with a Connecticut hospital to develop a way to fix or replace a child's esophagus to treat life-threatening conditions, the Holliston firm announced Monday.

UMass Memorial Health Care has renewed and expanded its contract with an Atlanta-based services provider to help manage its supply chain and procurement operations, the firm announced Thursday.

Health care workers at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, in Ayer, who voted to form a union with 1199SEIU in January 2015 will receive a pay increase and other benefit enhancements as part of a new union contract agreement reached with Steward Health Care.

The Clinical Pharmacy Services division of UMass Medical School will partner with a major contracting and service organization to provide guidance on the company's clinical software platform for specialty pharmacists, the medical school announced Tuesday.