Health Care

Joint replacement surgeries are among the most common medical procedures performed in the U.S., but historically, data that can track their effectiveness hasn't been widely available.

Convergent Dental of Natick has secured $9 million in capital to help bring a dental laser product, Solea, to market.

St. Vincent Hospital is reviewing an application from a group of more than 200 technicians at the hospital to unionize.

A new report says jobs in the Massachusetts human services sector grew almost 48 percent between 2003 and 2011.

Who earns more money: a health care worker or a fast-food worker? It depends on where they work. Fast-food workers were famously victorious in Seattle when they got the city to adopt a $15-per-hour minimum wage, a gradual increase that begins this year. That was done under the union-backed “Fight for $15,” which launched in 2012. Since then, low-wage workers from other sectors have joined the cause, including healthcare workers, who in Massachusetts sometimes earn only the state's minimum wage of $9 per hour.

Brian Burke, a 76-year-old Warren resident, is well acquainted with the toll major surgery takes on the body.

(Updated Friday at 6:15 p.m.) A plan to consolidate two patient-care units at Clinton Hospital is meeting with opposition from the union that represents its nurses.

The Baker administration plans a "top-to-bottom" review of state hospitals seeking to make the facilities more efficient in providing care to as many people as possible, Public Health commissioner Monica Bharel told the News Service Wednesday.

In the last 30 years, chiropractors have been able to shed much of the skepticism that surrounded their discipline and enter the mainstream health care industry as providers who treat myriad conditions that cause chronic pain.

Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie, which has operations in Worcester, will acquire Pharmacyclics, maker of the blood cancer treatment Imbruvica (ibrutinib).