| Baker gets key small business insurance extension The Baker Administration has secured federal approval to extend small group health insurance rating factors to encourage premium and market stability. WBJ Best of Business voting deadline is Dec. 1 Voting is open for the Worcester Business Journal's 5th annual Best of Business Awards. WPI professor awarded $1.7M cancer research funding A Worcester Polytechnic Institute chemistry professor has received a $1.7-million award from the National Institutes of Health to develop treatments for persistent cancers. DPH: Overdose deaths down 10 percent Opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts declined by 10 percent in the first nine months of 2017 when compared to the same time period last year, the Department of Public Health reported Monday. | 
