In a recent interview, physician and noted social activist Dr. Paul Farmer gave this advice to graduating medical professionals: their real impact will come when they work in teams. As the co-founder of Partners in Health and a champion of improving health in underserved communities, Farmer’s work is built on building partnerships and applying successes and lessons […]

The Massachusetts economy is expected to grow slowly before accelerating in early 2014, benefiting from a boost from an unexpected sector — manufacturing — according to an economic forecast released Wednesday by a group of regional economists. Although Massachusetts is in the midst of a slowdown in hiring, the five-year forecast by the New England […]

The Bay State’s economy will grow slowly this year before bouncing back in 2014, while the state’s unemployment rate is poised to fall to 5.2 percent by the last quarter of 2017, according to an economic forecast released today by the New England Economic Partnership. Massachusetts payroll employment is expected to grow 1 percent this […]

We’ve reported a lot on Boston’s health rankings. We were ranked the second fittest city in the U.S. by Forbes and Massachusetts was ranked the second fittest state by the same publication. United Health Foundation ranked Mass. fourth in the nation for overall health last year, and MapMyFitness ranked Mass. the second fittest state in the country last year. And we have the second lowest obesity rate in the nation […]

In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, scientists started thinking about the protein complement of the genome, and proteomics—the identification and characterization of all of an organism’s proteins—was born. Early proteomics methods used enzymes to digest proteins into pieces that could be easily analyzed by mass spectrometry. Those methods are now […]

Joe Lane, juggling a job and family, wanted to get an MBA, but didn’t like the idea of doing a program entirely online. Then he found a solution: Babson College’s Fast Track MBA, a program combining online learning with face-to-face classes that meet for 2½ days every seven weeks at the Wellesley campus. Lane, who completed […]

Ana Costagliola learned more than a year ago that her employer planned to move its Boston operations — including her job as a computer database assistant — to New York. Determined to stay in the Boston area, the 47-year-old mother of two entered Boston University’s graduate certificate program in database management to hone and expand […]

Massachusetts employers cut jobs for the third consecutive month in April, a sign that federal spending cuts and tax increases are slowing the state’s economy and taking a toll on hiring, economists said. Employers trimmed payrolls by 1,400 jobs last month, after cutting 3,800 jobs in March and 800 in February, the Massachusetts Executive Office […]

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The pair of bombs that exploded along Boylston Street a month ago took not only lives and livelihoods, they also took with them a sense of security that many Bostonians once had. And now, a month after the Marathon bombings, another incident has brought into question the region’s vulnerability. Seven people were found trespassing at […]

Shortly after Northeastern University announced plans to be a smoke-free campus in the fall, school officials clarified the policy, saying that students caught smoking would not be fined or punished, but rather encouraged to quit with the help of university resources. Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern, said Tuesday in a […]

Five months after Northeastern assembled a committee to explore the possibility of implementing a campus-wide smoke-free policy, the decision has been made to move forward with the ban. This fall, the university will join the more than 1,100 institutions across the country who have taken similar steps. “This new policy reflects Northeastern’s long-standing commitment to promoting […]