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Numerous area organizations are pooling resources and joining forces to combat youth obesity, which affects more than a third of local children and teenagers.

Lung cancer has long been a particularly terrifying diagnosis. Out of every 100 people who were found to have the disease between 2005 and 2011, only 17 percent were alive five years later.

After scrapping extended-hours service on weekends, the MBTA control board on Wednesday directed staff to seek measures for improving transit service for racial minorities and low-income riders.

The state's transportation department will devote 80 percent of its more than $14.3 billion capital dollars to system improvement and modernization.

The Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Association tried Tuesday to sway lawmakers to opposite sides of a bill that would allow nurses working at an assisted living facility to provide certain health care services.

100 House lawmakers have written a letter to their own negotiators urging them to raise net metering caps and resist cuts in metering credit values that they say could cause irreparable harm to an industry the state is trying to grow.

Boston Scientific has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new catheter designed to treat an abnormal rhythm of the upper chambers of the heart.

Ascentria Care Alliance will manage a pilot program aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of refugees in Worcester as they transition into the community.

A Framingham industrial property made up of four buildings totaling 16,849 square feet on 4.3 acres of land has sold for just over $2 million in two separate transactions.

The Princeton Review has ranked Worcester's Becker College fifth in the nation when it comes to game design education.