Rebecca Ostriker

The company, which is now officially in default, has been in crisis, laboring to pay creditors as it grapples with more than $300 billion in liabilities.

A national group is launching a campaign to end “legacy” preferences, using an alumni donations boycott.

A COVID-19 outbreak killed 76 veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home last spring. Here are five takeaways from Globe reporting on the story.

Experts say behavior, biology, and societal factors may all play a part in sex disparities in COVID-19 deaths. But an important key may be found in nursing homes.

The collaboration comes after questions were raised about the federal government’s puzzling process for distributing the drug.

Antibody testing, also known as serology testing, can reveal if someone was infected in the past, even if they recovered or never felt significant symptoms. Such tests could be key in plans for the Commonwealth to safely, fully reopen.

Staff at the Ragon research institute in Cambridge could be test subjects in a plan to pave the way for societal reopening.

In a pandemic perceived as largely sparing the very young from serious illness, a growing number of children infected with COVID-19 in Massachusetts have become so severely ill that they have needed hospitalization — sometimes even ventilators.

As part of a bold initiative involving hospitals across the state, MGH on Monday began distributing thousands of freshly decontaminated N95 masks to health care workers after the equipment went through an elaborate cleaning process at a site now up and running in Somerville.

Battelle, which has set up a giant decontamination machine in Somerville, says the service will be offered at no charge to healthcare providers.