UMass Medical School

University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Martin Meehan has agreed to a five-year contract to lead the UMass system as its next president with an annual base salary that escalates from $525,000 starting in July to $602,500 in the final year.

Martin Meehan's track record as chancellor at University of Massachusetts Lowell bodes well for the rest of the UMass system, which, like much of the higher education industry, faces the challenge of continuously increasing costs.

Joint replacement surgeries are among the most common medical procedures performed in the U.S., but historically, data that can track their effectiveness hasn't been widely available.

The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, a Worcester-based human services provider, has a new leader: Kenneth J. Bates, who has moved over from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

UMass Medical School in Worcester will collaborate with Lysogene, a French biotechnology company, and Auburn University in Alabama, to develop pre-clinical studies of a rare disorder that causes neurological impairment, Lysogene announced.

Researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, helped by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, are developing a smartphone app that will help users better understand why they overeat.

Local veterans advocates and health care leaders are waiting for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

IC Federal Credit Union, based in Fitchburg, made changes in its senior management team, promoting BRENDA BUJNEVICIE,...

Consumers often struggle to comprehend how medical bills quickly add up to astronomical amounts, and lament layoffs...

When news of the first confirmed Ebola case in West Africa broke in March, Patricia McQuilken, a University of Massachusetts Medical School doctor working at a hospital in Liberia, felt confident the virus could be contained. But it was not, and today she and a UMass team are back in Liberia