Health Care

Researchers from UMass Chan Medical School, the NIH, and Emory University School of Medicine, have developed a database for information related to ALS.

UMass Memorial Medical Center "failed miserably" in its plan to maintain access to maternal care after the proposed closure of a Leominster birthing center, the city's mayor contended Tuesday in a plea for state regulators to take a more forceful approach.

Natick-based Allurion Technologies will add a generative AI technology to its clinical offerings in the form of an artificial intelligence-powered health coach.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced Tuesday that it will cover the overdose reversal medication Narcan.

Web Industries, a Marlborough-based manufacturer serving a variety of industries including medical, aerospace, and personal & home care, will lay off 68 people at its Holliston facility, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act report submitted to the state.

Acton medical device firm Insulet Corp. has launched its flagship product, the Omnipod tubeless insulin device, in Germany a year after it received Food and Drug Administration approval for the device in the U.S. 

UMass Memorial Health is once again requiring all caregivers at its healthcare settings to wear masks during patient encounters. 

Vincent Strully Jr., founder of The New England Center for Children and CEO of the autism education organization for 48 years, has retired from the position and will step into an advisor role.

A third of a way into a sweeping effort to reassess MassHealth eligibility for roughly 2.4 million Bay Staters, the anticipated wave of disenrollment is beginning to appear.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Inna Nechipurenko has received two grants totaling $564,000 to advance her study into how cellular structures called cilia affect the development of neurodevelopmental disorders.