The market is buzzing with demand for obesity pills, but Allurion Technologies is building a case that its weight loss platform—a medical device and software—is a worthy competitor to these drugs and perhaps even a companion to them. The company made debuted on the stock market debut Wednesday, raising $100 million to support commercialization of … Read more
Hospitals, and especially nonprofit hospitals, have a duty of care to their communities, but their ability to provide that care hinges on their ability to generate revenue – chiefly in the form of patient and insurer payments. But that model is growing more difficult as the commercially insured population ages into Medicare and those with employer-sponsored … Read more
Strong thunderstorms with torrential rainfall prompting weather warnings across many parts of Massachusetts Friday, leaving a path of damage in some cities and towns that could take week or months to recover from. Flash flood warnings were posted late Friday night for areas that saw the most intense rainfall from thunderstorms. National Weather Service meteorologists … Read more
The National Weather Service says a survey team has determined a tornado touched down in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, late Sunday morning.The EF-0 tornado is estimated to have touched down a little east of the North Brookfield Waste Water Center shortly before 11 a.m. and traveled about 2 miles to the northeast, although it was not … Read more
Police in Lowell, Massachusetts were set to resume a widespread search for a missing 7-year-old girl who is autistic and nonverbal after daybreak on Monday.Lowell Police say Anna was last seen between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday in the area of East Merrimack Street in the Belvidere neighborhood through the area of River … Read more
My wife, Sigrid, and I are ardent road trippers. But over the years, we’ve often talked about seeing the world more slowly, ditching highways for cross-country footpaths such as the Transcaucasian Trail in Georgia or England’s Coast to Coast Walk. We’re more realists than romantics, though, so we always punted the idea. Who could predict … Read more