When people find out what Dr. Mark Brenner, the chief radiation oncologist at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, does for a living, he says he often gets one response in particular.
A handful of MetroWest towns are either home to medical marijuana establishments, or could become home to them following the second round of licensing that kicked off at the end of June. As these new businesses get down to the work of producing and dispensing medicinal marijuana products, the general consensus is that they blend in just fine with their corporate neighbors.
It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is creating new business for architects and construction companies.
Waters Corp. reported a 12.4-percent rise in earnings for the second quarter, along with a 3-percent jump in sales, the Milford-based manufacturer of laboratory instruments announced Tuesday.
Data storage giant EMC Corp. of Hopkinton has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Virtustream Group Holdings, which has been viewed as a “game changer” intended to enhance EMC's cloud-based services.