UMass Medical School

The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) announced plans Monday to open a regional clinical campus of the Worcester-based medical school in Springfield along with Baystate Health and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A panel of University of Massachusetts trustees on Wednesday signed off on hiking student costs for the 2015-2016 school year, saying the exact increase will depend on how much the university system will receive in state aid.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and the medical school at Trinity College Dublin are strengthening their decade-long collaboration.

Students at University of Massachusetts Medical School will engage in clinical work at Cape Cod Hospital after both organizations reached agreement on an academic affiliation, the Worcester school announced Tuesday.

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.