UMass Memorial Medical Center

Brian Burke, a 76-year-old Warren resident, is well acquainted with the toll major surgery takes on the body.

(Updated Friday at 6:15 p.m.) A plan to consolidate two patient-care units at Clinton Hospital is meeting with opposition from the union that represents its nurses.

Edward Moore, president and CEO of the Harrington HealthCare System, has been keeping a close eye on developments with Partners HealthCare, the enormous and fast-growing eastern Massachusetts health care system. Although Partners recently scaled back its latest expansion effort, Moore is not letting down his guard.

Privacy has been an obligation of the medical profession dating back to the ancient Greeks and the Hippocratic Oath. However, safeguarding patient information has transformed alongside an industry that increasingly relies on technology.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester are wondering if studies of a lowly worm can help us understand how to better maintain health as we age.

Greater Worcester is home to 12 colleges and universities that graduated 7,500 students in 2014. But for most, their time in Worcester is short lived.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association has been on the move in Central Massachusetts in recent months. In July, registered nurses at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer voted to join the union. Two months later, RNs at Athol Hospital did the same.

Q&A with Patrick Muldoon, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester.

The new $80-million Quest Diagnostics laboratory in Marlborough will be a hub of innovation, as well as the center for medical testing services for patients throughout New England, Quest CEO Steve Rusckowski told guests gathered to celebrate the opening of the Forest Street facility Thursday morning.

A state agency has checked off on UMass Memorial Health Care's sale of Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer to Baystate Health of Springfield, clearing the way for the transaction.