Health Care

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting arm of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, announced Tuesday its new name.

State regulators have opted against pursing cost and market impact reviews for a pair of healthcare deals.

Hopes were high in January 2020 when the Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness opened in Worcester. Two months later, COVID struck, and those plans went out the window.

When Kathleen Jordan took a job at her university’s advancement office, she could not have predicted it would be the beginning of a decades-long career in fundraising.

Hannaford Supermarkets has begun installing defibrillators at all 185 of its stores to save the lives of customers and employees in case of a sudden cardiac event, the Scarborough, Maine-based food retailer said.

Marlborough medical technology company Hologic Inc., reported a decrease in profits of 62.5%, to $187 million, in the first quarter of 2023, which in the same period of the previous year was $499 million.

The annual profits at Boston Scientific, a Marlborough medical device manufacturer, dropped to $698 million in 2022, down from $1.04 billion in 2021.

A new hotline went live Monday morning to offer free and confidential legal advice to patients seeking reproductive and abortion care in Massachusetts, including those who do not live in the state.

A developer has completed its acquisition of 70 Gold Star Boulevard, with the aim of redeveloping the property into an 18,000-square-foot retail plaza anchored by urgent care center ConvenientMD and featuring Kelly’s Roast Beef and Jersey Mike’s Subs.

Leicester nonprofit ARCHway will merge under the umbrella of the Worcester nonprofit Seven Hills Foundation on April 1.