Health Care

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Thousands of Massachusetts residents from marginalized backgrounds could gain health insurance coverage should policymakers move to expand eligibility criteria for state-subsidized plans and remove administrative hurdles, a report released Thursday found.

Milford Regional Physician Group has added travel medicine services to its infectious disease department, and vaccines for foreign travel are now available at the Milford Regional Medical Center.

Definitive Healthcare, a Framingham-based commercial intelligence firm, has launched a new artificial intelligence program to use machine learning to target growth opportunities for its clients.

Milford life sciences equipment manufacturer Waters Corp. is among the top 10 companies in the state for gender diversity in executive leadership.

Springtide Child Development, an autism center with locations in Shrewsbury and across Massachusetts and Connecticut, has been acquired.

Marlborough company Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has begun its in-human clinical trials for a drug to treat generalized anxiety disorder.

Former lieutenant governor nominee Steve Kerrigan, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester, cruised to the top post at the Massachusetts Democratic Party with no opposition Monday night.

After a state inspection of three Community Healthlink substance abuse programs led to their suspension and a halt of new admissions, 80 layoffs are anticipated and the Worcester organization’s president is leaving her role.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a coalition of 18 state AGs and the inspector general in Washington D.C. in a call for more transparent disclosures of nursing home ownership.