Health Care

CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has named Boston Scientific Chairman and CEO Michael Mahoney to its board of directors, effective November 1.

Legislators representing marginalized communities and diverse medical leaders touted comprehensive health equity bills as a solution to overcoming long-standing racial disparities during a hearing Wednesday, though insurers warned the bill's passage could lead to higher costs for patients and employers.

Unionized workers at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts have voted to ratify a new contract to allow for a $2.50 per hour wage increase, added anti-discrimination protections, and increased parental leave.

Marlborough-based medical technology giant Boston Scientific has agreed to acquire Relievant Medsystems, which has developed a proprietary technology to treat lower-back pain.

UMass Memorial Health has received $153,824 in a combined grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, Reliant Foundation, and RIZE Massachusetts for an opioid-use disorder education program targeted at prescribers.

People are on the move at Fallon Health, Nichols College, and Cornerstone Bank.

Hospital systems are waiting, monitoring, and responding as COVID cases rise, even as they remain far below peak levels.

After 48 years with its founder as CEO, The New England Center for Children has a clinician as its new leader.

Framingham-based Alzheon, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical research and development firm, on Wednesday reported statistically significant results in brain preservation from a phase two trial of an early Alzheimer's disease drug.

Health care spending in Massachusetts is "moving in the wrong direction" 11 years after enactment of a landmark cost-containment law, and regulators will make another pass at convincing lawmakers to support a new approach, a top state official said Wednesday.