Health Care

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Jeannine Coburn was granted $606,146 from the National Science Foundation to develop a transparent wound dressing with its roots in a home culinary project.

Richard Burke, the president and CEO of Fallon Health, is retiring from his role at the end of the year.

A legal battle is being fought between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health over millions of dollars from UMass Memorial’s 2019 sale of its stake in Shields Health Solutions to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. 

People are on the moved at Fidelity Bank, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Waters Corp.

When Worcester child care advocacy nonprofit Edward Street received a $75,000 grant, it was an example of essential funding for early childhood organizations, which rely on foundational funding in the absence of adequate federal funding.

To move on from the garage to the real world isn’t as easy as “I have an idea!” In the world, we cherish ideas and people who bring them to life, but what is often lost is to make something, to start a company, to build something new, money is required.

Webster developer Galaxy Life Sciences purchased the final three lots at The Reactory biomanufacturing campus on Belmont Street in Worcester for $4 million on Thursday.

Boston Scientific Corp. has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its new device designed to make kidney stone procedures safer and easier. 

Leominster-based Regional Home Care has reached a $2.5-million settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office resolving allegations the home care agency improperly collected payment from MassHealth members and engaged in deceptive debt collection practices.

Emergency transportation in a publicly-owned ambulance in Massachusetts costs about twice the national average, according to an upcoming report from the state's Health Policy Commission.