A ban on U.S. sales of the Guidezilla catheter made by Boston Scientific (BSX) went into effect yesterday after a federal appeals court ruled against BSX's petition for an interim stay.
A new report shows that individual and family health insurance costs in the United continue to rise, with Massachusetts prices falling at the high end of the spectrum, prior to the implementation of major provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act in 2014.
When Boston Red Sox owner and billionaire John W. Henry bought The Boston Globe and Worcester's Telegram & Gazette in October, his intentions for the Boston newspaper were clear.
A report issued by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today shows that questionable insurance claims that could be fraudulent increased 57 percent between 2010 and 2012 in Massachusetts, with Boston, Springfield and Worcester producing the highest numbers of questionable claims.
Worcester-based Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI) at Becker College received a $25,000 grant to expand high school participation in its annual MassDiGI Game Challenge, and to launch a series of workshops focused on game development.
They've filed 30 lawsuits against EMC Corp. since 2005, forcing the Hopkinton-based data storage giant to spend at least $1 million per month on legal fees for each of the past several years.
Tufts Health Plan of Watertown, which insures 118,000 in Central Massachusetts, announced it has opened an office in downtown Worcester. Located at 1 Mercantile St., the office will serve as a satellite office for Tufts' employer-sponsored and Medicare plans, the company said.