580,000 in Massachusetts live in ‘pharmacy deserts,’ new report shows

More than a half-million people in Massachusetts live without easy access to pharmacies, making medications, vaccinations, and other health care services harder to get. A new report by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission released Thursday...

Welcome to the ‘News Jungle’: Boston Influencers and the Future of Local Media

Boston’s mayor threw a Content Creator summit, a radio reporter became a TikTok star, and a songwriter realized her social posts pay better than her music gigs. The media landscape hasn’t died—it’s just grown wild. Mayor Michelle Wu hosted the...

Boston Scientific opens new facility in Maple Grove

By Jonah Kaplan Jonah Kaplan Investigative Reporter Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the...

What to Expect from Boston Scientific's Earnings

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) is gearing up to announce its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, 2025-10-22. Here's a quick overview of what investors should know before the release. Analysts are estimating that Boston Scientific will report an...

Boston housing permitting lags as residents express support for zoning changes

FOUR YEARS AGO, as Covid tore across the globe and people retreated to their homes with the computer as a window to the outside, then-City Councilor Michelle Wu looked into a Zoom screen and diagnosed Boston’s housing woes. “I think it’s the fact...

Boston Scientific opens new Maple Grove facility

Researchers highlight ethical implications of clinical trial terminations

The termination of thousands of federal grants that fund clinical trials threatens to reverse substantial progress in understanding and treating the health challenges of marginalized populations, particularly children and adolescents who are...

Biotech Venture Financing Upturn Of 70.9% QoQ In Q3 2025 Signals Potential Recovery, Reveals GlobalData

GlobalData’s Venture Capital Investment Trends In Pharma – Q3 2025 report reveals that the biotech industry witnessed a 70.9% increase in total venture financing deal value from $1.8 billion in Q2 2025 to $3.1 billion in Q3 2025. This uptick...

Boston Scientific to acquire Nalu Medical for USD 533 million

Marlborough: Boston Scientific Corporation has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nalu Medical, Inc., a privately held medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing minimally invasive solutions...

Telangana eyes ₹1 lakh cr investments in life sciences by 2030: Industries Minister in Melbourne

IT and Industries Minister D.Sridhar Babu addressing the AusBiotech International Conference 2025 in Melbourne. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Telangana has set an ambitious target of attracting ₹1 lakh crore in new investments in the life sciences...

Somerville poised to offer $18m property tax break to lure life science company

Somerville’s City Council on Thursday evening will discuss giving up to $18 million in property-tax breaks for an unnamed company to occupy a 500,000-square-foot laboratory building somewhere in the city. The deal, known as a tax-increment...

Telangana targets ₹1 lakh crore investments in Life Sciences by 2030 – Minister Sridhar Babu

Telangana has set an ambitious target of attracting ₹1 lakh crore in new investments in the Life Sciences sector by 2030, aiming to generate employment for five lakh people, said Minister for IT and Industries Duddilla Sridhar Babu. Delivering the...

After marathon meeting, Planning Commission recommends approval of New Boston Crossing developers’ changes to land use map

photo by: Sylas May/Journal-World An overflow crowd sits in City Hall's lobby during the Planning Commission's meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. In a marathon meeting that included more than an hour of public comments, planning commissioners on...

How Allan Rohan Crite built a family of Black artists in Boston

This is the third story in a three-part series on Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite. Read the first story here and the second story here. When artist Johnetta Tinker lost her father in the early 1980s, she was on the verge of pulling out of an...

MENU - ORDER AI Launches October 28, Advancing Healthy Dining Through Artificial Intelligence -- and Preparing for the Next Wave of AGI

Boston-based health-tech startup uses AI to instantly identify healthier restaurant and delivery meals — from High-protein and GLP-1 friendly to low-carb and low Weight Watchers (WW) points — and is developing AGI-driven personalization for the...

If Massachusetts is so progressive, why couldn’t the first US IVF baby be born here?

Perhaps no one knows better than Elizabeth Carr, the first American baby born from in vitro fertilization, how fragile and fickle access to reproductive technology can be. She is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, a state widely perceived to...

Runners gear up for RDC Marathon in Durham supporting ALS research

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- On Sunday, October 26, hundreds of runners will take part in the annual RDC Marathon. The race features a full marathon, half marathon, 10K, and 5K in support of the Team Drea Foundation. The foundation was created by Andrea...

Boston’s new women’s pro soccer team flubbed its rollout. Can Legacy FC come back from behind?

Then they hit launch. The video introducing the team name went viral — but not in a good way. The club’s name, BOS Nation Football Club, was greeted immediately as a colossal own-goal. An anagram of Bostonian, the name borrowed the city’s BOS...

Parking lot drug exchanges. A $300,000 baby. In Massachusetts, fertility coverage shortfalls cost patients dearly.

It was midday when the nurse pulled her car into the Market Basket parking lot in Hanover and sidled up to a black SUV. She said hello to the SUV driver, a suburban mom she’d connected with in a private Facebook group. The driver got out and...

Hopkinton Today for Thursday, Oct. 23: Shah completes Jimmy Fund Walk for cancer research

Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday’s news, highlights of what’s on tap, and a photo of the day. Manan Shah poses for a photo following his completion of the marathon route of...