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Bristol Myers, hot off Breyanzi nod, plots new cell therapy factory in Massachusetts

Bristol Myers Squibb, freshly armed with an approval for its CAR-T lymphoma therapy Breyanzi, is making a major cell therapy manufacturing play. The company is building out a new 244,000-square-foot cell therapy site, housed at the company’s 89-acre campus in Devens, Massachusetts. The new factory will be kitted out to quickly ramp up clinical and commercial production, augmenting Bristol’s existing… Read More »

Massachusetts lawmakers OK bill to ban flavored tobacco, levy 75% excise tax on e-cigarettes

A smoker is engulfed by vapours as he smokes an electronic vaping machine. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images The Massachusetts Senate has approved legislation banning the sale of flavored tobacco products and levying a 75% excise tax on e-cigarettes as state officials aim to curb a spike in underage vaping. The bill, which… Read More »

A second person in Massachusetts has died after contracting Eastern equine encephalitis

This was the 10th confirmed human case in the commonwealth. Another Massachusetts EEE patient, Laurie Sylvia, died in August. There are 35 Massachusetts communities now at critical risk of EEE and 40 at high risk of the mosquito-borne virus. Tests show the EEE virus has been found in 421 mosquito samples there this year, many… Read More »

Massachusetts Democrats push bill to allow more late-term abortions

Massachusetts Democrats are pushing a sweeping bill to allow more third-trimester abortions, meaning the commonwealth would join New York in having some of the loosest restrictions in the country. Massachusetts law currently bans abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy except if a woman’s pregnancy endangers her life, or if continuing the pregnancy would risk “grave… Read More »

Massachusetts Maternal Mortality Rates Rising: Opioid Abuse and Psychiatric Illness Play a Role

Pregnancy-associated mortality, defined as the death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the termination of pregnancy, is increasing in Massachusetts.  In 2012, there were 30.4 deaths/100,000 live births. In 2014, the rate increased by 33%, to 40.4 deaths per 100,000 live births. Because pregnancy-associated mortality rates have historically been relatively low… Read More »

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