Health Care

Spheric Bio, a Cambridge company developing a 3D heart implant to help prevent strokes, was awarded $50,000 for winning the M2D2 Challenge, a partnership between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Lowell.

With consumers experiencing higher health care outlays and some putting off care because of it, a state commission on Wednesday stuck with the annual state health care cost growth benchmark, which is a target rather than a binding cap on price or spending escalation.

Tenet Healthcare announced the appointment of Connie Malave Branyan as the new market chief strategy officer for its Massachusetts market, which encompasses Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center.

Here's what's new with personnel at MutualOne Bank, Cornerstone Bank, UMass Memorial Health, Venture Community Services and more.

To cover for COVID-related staff shortages, hospitals are over-reliant on travel nurses, who are paid significantly more than staff.

With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias

Large for-profit life sciences companies have called Central Mass. their home for decades. Now, they play an important role in bringing talent, investment, and research to the region.

Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

Fitchburg nonprofit The Arc of Opportunity has become an affiliate of Chelmsford-based Incompass Human Services, which serves nearly 500 individuals with brain injuries and intellectual disabilities in the Greater Lawrence and Greater Lowell areas.

Athma Pai, assistant professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received a $1-million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.