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FDA issues most serious recall against Boston Scientific’s blood vessel blocking device
April 23, 2024The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall of Boston Scientific’s Obsidio conformable embolic medical device after an investigation found using the product for lower gastrointestinal bleeding embolization can result in a high risk of
April 23, 2024
Fitchburg’s 147-year-old building eyed for retro arcade bar, 8 apartments
April 23, 2024A Fitchburg property owner is involved in two separate proposals to see a Main Street property host a new retro arcade bar and eight residential units.
April 23, 2024
Worcester, Framingham projects benefit from $6.9M in state neighborhood stabilization funds
April 22, 2024Overall, this $6.9-million pool of funds will be used to redevelop or rehabilitate 37 homes across the state.
April 22, 2024
State tax collections up in first half of April, but Dept. of Revenue downplays significance
April 19, 2024Comparisons to April 2023 might not be helpful anyways. Last April, tax revenue came up $1.435 billion short of what was expected and turned what was shaping up as a surplus into a deficit.
April 19, 2024
Climbing prices, declining sales of Central Mass. homes largely continue in March
April 17, 2024Prospective home buyers in Central Massachusetts are still largely dealing with record high prices and limited inventory, as the average cost of a home purchase in Middlesex and Worcester counties is up around 10% in the last year.
April 17, 2024
WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development
April 17, 2024Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.
April 17, 2024
HollyWoo production, halted: The industry built around Central Mass. moviemaking reached new heights in the early 2020s, before 2023 pressed pause
Updated: April 15, 2024Once a production desert, Central Massachusetts has seen a large increase in Hollywood-related activity in the past 15 years. Then, the strikes came.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Q&A: NORESCO is expanding its business of saving energy
Updated: April 15, 2024Since its founding in 1984, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities, spanning the globe from Massachusetts to Japan.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Preventing type 1 diabetes: UMass Chan researcher developing skin treatment, with potential broader applications to prevent diabetes
Updated: April 15, 2024Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Gov. Healey's proposed $1B life sciences reauthorization has Central Mass. leaders thinking big
Updated: April 15, 2024For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.
Updated: April 15, 2024
UMass Chan to open AI assurance lab to validate use of the technology in health care
April 12, 2024On Wednesday, UMass Chan announced the creation of the university’s Health AI Assurance Laboratory: a lab designed to evaluate processes and impacts of health AI technology to advance efforts for more accountable, unbiased, and efficacious patient
April 12, 2024
Cannabis regulators seek input on new municipal equity rules
April 12, 2024Cannabis regulators are seeking input on the model bylaw or ordinance that will give cities and towns a way to comply with new minimum municipal equity standards that stem from the 2022 marijuana industry reform law.
April 12, 2024
Saint Vincent faces formal complaint from National Labor Relations Board
April 11, 2024The National Labor Relations Board has issued a formal complaint against Saint Vincent Hospital citing a number of nurses’ union rights violations perpetrated by the hospital.
April 11, 2024
Better Business Bureau CEO retires, as Worcester chamber VP takes over
April 11, 2024The Better Business Bureau of Central New England has replaced its retired and longtime leader with a former vice president from the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.
April 11, 2024
Electric Hydrogen receives $18.4M in tax credits as company prepares to open Devens factory
April 10, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy credits, combined with the other federal and private funds, will assist the company to begin production at the facility faster, said Jason Mortimer, Electric Hydrogen’s senior vice president of global sales.
April 10, 2024
Long-time leader of Worcester’s second-largest law firm to relinquish role to co-managing partners
April 10, 2024Mirick O’Connell has appointed Paul Carey and Robert Kilroy as the Worcester law firm’s first-ever co-managing partners since its founding in 1916.
April 10, 2024
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