Greater Worcester

VSA Massachusetts of Boston has merged with the Integrated Health and Human Services Network of Worcester's Seven Hills Foundation.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $9.5 million grant to investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to establish a research center that would investigate the cause and treatment the most common form of inherited intellectual and developmental disability, known as Fragile X.

Fallon Health of Worcester said it earned $1.9 million in the third quarter of this year on revenue of $323 million.

A Worcester developer of business property has bought an office complex in Hudson for nearly $3 million, the company announced.

Filling a second major Cabinet post, Governor-elect Charlie Baker has tapped Shrewsbury Republican Rep. Matthew Beaton as his energy and environmental affairs secretary.

City Manager Edward Augustus has appointed Acting Chief Development Officer Michael Traynor to the role on a permanent basis as the city looks to maintain its development momentum.

Marlborough-based RXi Pharmaceuticals, which is working on a drug to reduce dermal scarring after surgery, reported financial results for the quarter ended Sept. 30.

A mixed-use Chapter 40B affordable housing proposal in Shrewsbury won the approval of selectmen Wednesday.

The Human Rights Commission (HRC), the nation's leading civil rights organization representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, has given Worcester a perfect score of 100 in a rating system that measures LGBT inclusion in municipal law and policy.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced plans to build a new treatment facility in a partnership designed to expand health care access to veterans.