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‘I like to think about us as a $9 billion startup.’ Cain Hayes takes the helm at Point32Health

Hayes is charged with bringing together two of the state’s best-known health insurers and leading the company through its merger.

Mass General Brigham employees lose bid to halt unpaid leave over vaccine mandate

A federal lawsuit says the workers’ disability and religious exemptions had been wrongly denied without explanation or “meaningful interactive process” and “without a showing of undue hardship.”

Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms
STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

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The deal to acquire Francisan Children's would be the first of its kind for Boston Children’s Hospital, which has acquired doctors groups and built new facilities in the past but has never acquired another hospital.

Boston Children’s plans to acquire Franciscan Children’s, boost mental health care

The region’s dominant pediatric health care provider is aiming to spend at least $40-$50 million to improve and expand the Franciscan campus in Brighton.

Ed Park, cofounder and chief executive officer of Devoted Health.

Devoted Health raises $1.2 billion, with plans to expand across the country

The health insurance tech startup led by Ed and Todd Park focuses on Americans that use Medicare Advantage, a program supported by the federal government that tends to cover additional services, such as visits to a dentist or eye doctor.

A Boston Scientific falg.

Boston Scientific buying Canadian medical device company for $1.75 billion

The Marlborough company has completed several other acquisitions this year, including a buyout of California medical manufacturer Farapulse in June and the purchase of Israeli surgical laser company Lumenis in September.

The logo for Point32Health, the new company formed by the merger of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Harvard Pilgrim to drop Medicare Advantage plans in Mass., Maine

After merger with Tufts, Harvard Pilgrim drops Medicare Advantage in two New England states.

The parent company of Walgreens drugstores will own more than 70 percent of Shields Health Solutions after investing an additional $970 million in the Stoughton-based specialty pharmacy company.

Walgreens Boots takes a controlling stake in Shields Health Solutions

The company will pay $970 million to increase its ownership of the Stoughton-based specialty pharmacy company to 71 percent.

Larry Edelman
Dr. Anne Klibanski, CEO of Mass General Brigham, has the perfect opportunity to end of the dubious practice of allowing the health care network's hospital chiefs to serve as directors of for-profit companies.

Memo to Mass General Brigham: The time is right to keep your hospital chiefs off corporate boards

With new leaders at MGH and Brigham and Women’s hospital, the state’s largest health care network has a perfect opportunity to prohibit executives from cashing in as directors at for-profit companies.

Chief of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital David Brown poses for a portrait on April 2, 2020. Dr. Brown will be president of the hospital and executive vice president at the Mass General Brigham system beginning Sept. 8.

Familiar and respected at MGH, new president Dr. David Brown will work to unify the health care system

Dr. David F. M. Brown has worked at the hospital for 32 years, starting as an intern. He called himself an MGH “lifer” and said he hopes his appointment reassures physicians who are uneasy about the push to work more closely as part of a hospital system.

OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy, in Montpelier, Vt.

‘I don’t know.’ Sackler claims ignorance of OxyContin’s death toll

Purdue Pharma’s ongoing bankruptcy trial saw former president Richard Sackler assert ignorance of how many people have died from OxyContin, the drugmaker’s addictive painkiller.