Health Care

Young people with eating disorders seeking and receiving inpatient and outpatient care increased dramatically over the course of the pandemic, according to a study by Dr. Sydney Hartman-Munick.

Journalist and cancer research fundraiser Katie Couric will deliver the 50th commencement address at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester next year.

The medical technology division of General Electric known as GE Healthcare, which has a facility in Marlborough, will be spun off into its own separate company on Jan. 4.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $4.7 million to Worceste healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health for costs of testing, new equipment, and new staff due to COVID-19.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts offered new statistics Wednesday that punctuate the national trend of more people seeking treatment for depression and anxiety disorders.

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.

While boasting of "nation-leading policy and reforms" in Massachusetts related to the opioid epidemic, incoming and outgoing state executives agreed Tuesday that there is more work to be done.

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.

Marlborough medical-device giant Texas-based Apollo Endosurgery Inc.

CloudWave, a Marlborough-based healthcare IT company, has acquired Sensato Cybersecurity Solutions of New Jersey and named that company’s founder, John Gomez, as chief security and engineering officer.