UMass Memorial Medical Center

Sports medicine specialist Michael Brown talks treating sports stars and and assistant professor of orthopedics and physical rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Sports doctors and trainers are approaching pain management with athletes differently in light of the opioid crisis.

Several Central Massachusetts and MetroWest hospitals received high safety ratings in semiannual scores from the Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital watchdog nonprofit.

The American Cancer Society has distributed nearly $800,000 in research funds to a Worcester medical school researcher that focuses on lung cancer.

Susan Papalia is a researcher with decades of experience. Today, she's a cardiovascular research nurse manager at UMass Medical School. She's also a committed volunteer who supports multiple organizations for both humans and animals in Massachusetts and around New England.

Lung cancer has long been a particularly terrifying diagnosis. Out of every 100 people who were found to have the disease between 2005 and 2011, only 17 percent were alive five years later.

Massachusetts has a problem with unplanned patient readmissions as 78 percent of hospitals face federal penalties for having higher-than-expected readmissions in the most recent federal fiscal year.

Fitch Ratings has issued an 'A-' rating to UMass Memorial Health Care as the Central Massachusetts healthcare system seeks to raise $177 million to pay for facility upgrades and refinance existing debt.

UMass Memorial Health Care posted continued revenue growth through fiscal 2015 while reporting more patients served throughout a system that is moving more towards outpatient care.

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