The Pearl promises to be a transformational development for Charlotte, drawing in medical students, creating new jobs in science and research, and fostering cutting-edge innovation and entrepreneurialism.
'Natasha,' an AI app-building service from London-based Builder.ai, claimed it had the ability to use artificial intelligence to create applications. From coming up with app designs to writing code, Natasha promised to pump out programs in record time.
The Senate this week is taking up the massive budget package containing President Trump's second-term agenda, a measure that squeaked through the House with a one-vote margin, solely with Republican votes. Its path through the Senate seems destined to be similarly narrow, with the package almost certain to be revised, since parts of it are opposed by a handful of GOP senators critical to its passage.
Holy Family Hospital is moving to shutter some services at its Haverhill campus, including the emergency department, less than a year after new owners took over the facility during the Steward Health Care collapse. An attorney for Holy Family Hospital, now owned by Lawrence General Hospital, wrote to healthcare regulators signaling that hospital officials want to close several dozen inpatient medical and surgical beds and the emergency department in Haverhill this fall.
Primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union on Friday amid a dispute with the hospital system over their bargaining unit's size. Of the 237 eligible physicians, 209 participated in the mail-in election earlier this month, with 88% of voters in favor of unionization. If certified, the union — representing all full-time, part-time, and per diem primary care physicians at Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital — will join the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the SEIU. But the union will be unable to begin negotiating a contract until it resolves a legal battle with the hospital system over the size of its bargaining unit.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified a new strain of bacteria in rabbit ticks across Maine that could cause spotted fevers. This group of diseases includes Pacific Coast tick fever and the potentially deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever.