Jonathan Saltzman

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Scooty Nickerson

White people account for about 68 percent of Massachusetts residents with obesity but make up 82 percent of patients taking the drugs, according to the analysis, which relied on tens of thousands of insurance claims and data on assets. Women make up 51 percent of the state’s obese residents but about 71 percent of GLP-1 users. And nearly one-third of people taking the medicines have household incomes of $200,000 or more.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman

The three-year agreement, which is retroactive to July 1, 2024, would be the first contract between the state’s largest health system and the 2,600-member bargaining unit of the Committee of Interns and Residents of the Service Employees International Union. “It’s a strong deal,” said Dr. Lee Richman, a third-year resident in the pathology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a member of the union’s bargaining committee.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman

Baystate Health in Western Massachusetts is making its third round of job cuts since November, announcing on Tuesday that it will lay off 43 employees. Workers will be informed by Friday whether they will be laid off. A Baystate spokeswoman declined to identify the types of employees who will lose their jobs. Peter Banko, president and chief executive of the health system, said the layoffs will “complete one of the most disruptive components” of its effort to address Baystate’s financial woes.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Gokee |Jonathan Saltzman |Robert Weisman

Budget cuts from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies have prompted pushback from the academic community but also some sober reflections on the future of the nation’s government-centered model for bankrolling biomedical research. That model has fueled breakthroughs, from magnetic resonance imaging and targeted cancer therapies, to mapping the human genome to the vaccines that helped vanquish the COVID pandemic.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Maren Halpin

Health care workers and activists on Tuesday demanded that the head of defense contractor Lockheed Martin be removed from Mass General Brigham’s board of directors, saying Israel’s use of his company’s weapons in Gaza flies in the face of what a health system stands for.