UMass Medical School

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting arm of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, announced Tuesday its new name.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will receive a public assistance grant of $4.3 million to reimburse the school for COVID-19 tests administered between May 2020 and December 2021.

A UMass Chan Medical School pathology professor received $460,000 in grant funding to improve the flu vaccine for older adults, in order to provide longer-lasting immunity.

As healthcare inequities remain a persistent and pressing issue, the identification of ways the healthcare system can make future-focused moves to address them is top-of-mind at Commonwealth Medicine.

Dr. James Ledwith, Family physician and a professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received the Worcester District Medical Society’s Dr. A. Jane Fitzpatrick Community Service award.

The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will lead the newly-created New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy in its mission to increase nursing educators and train more nurses for the region’s workforce.

A psychiatry professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is leading a clinical trial studying the efficacy of a peer intervention program designed to help undergraduate and graduate students with serious mental health conditions.

Major healthcare providers in Massachusetts and across the country have started taking steps to rectify racial discrepancies in healthcare services and outcomes.

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Workers Union voted 364 to 15 in favor of unionizing under the United Auto Workers umbrella.

In a 6-4 vote on Wednesday, the Worcester City Council rejected the effort by UMass Chan Medical School to rename the Plantation streets, due to the name’s connection to slavery.