Health Care

One in six Massachusetts residents receive benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Under the "big beautiful bill" President Donald Trump signed into law this month, 175,000 SNAP recipients -- including legally present immigrants -- could lose some or all of their benefits, according to the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

The Division of Insurance approved 2026 rates for six insurers in the merged market, which provides a subset of Bay Staters with health insurance through individual and small business plans.

A non-emergency transportation company with operations in Worcester County has been ordered to pay $1.05 million.

Jim Green will retire from his roles as chairman, president, and CEO of Harvard Bioscience on July 28.

With one top Democrat invoking Yogi Berra's famous "déjà vu all over again" quote, the House on Wednesday approved the latest attempt to strengthen access to reproductive and transgender care in the face of out-of-state legal threats.

Massachusetts could become the first state to ban future generations from buying tobacco or nicotine products, a move that some say will finally end addiction to the harmful products, but others argue removes adult choices and freedom and would hurt small businesses. 

Mount Wachusett Community College has named a Central Massachusetts healthcare leader as well as one of the Gardner school’s students as the newest members to its board of trustees. 

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has officially renamed its New Education and Research Building after the donor foundation’s patriarch.

House Democrats are moving toward a vote on legislation that would update the 2022 state law shielding reproductive and transgender care from out-of-state legal action.

The deal, announced in a Monday press release, seeks to accelerate Waters’ expansion into high-growth markets and deliver cost and revenue synergies.