Health Care

Worcester insurer Fallon Health is seeking applicants for a $100,000 grant program aimed at helping community programs provide access to healthy food or for seniors to overcome social isolation.

Milford Regional Medical Center's rehabilitation program is now offering new treatment for women including pelvic floor therapy.

Massachusetts cities most affected by the coronavirus pandemic have gotten additional state aid, including nearly $834,000 for four Central Massachusetts cities for mobile vaccination and other efforts.

Marlborough medical products company Hologic was one of 55 corporations that paid no federal income taxes in 2020, according to the think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Not only that, but Hologic got a federal credit of $62 million.

UMass Memorial Health Care is no longer — the name, that is. UMass Memorial, the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, has launched a new branding campaign.

Central Massachusetts hospitals are losing a slight share of patients statewide and in absolute numbers, including at the area's two biggest hospital systems, Tenet Healthcare and UMass Memorial Health Care.

Nearly 1.5 million people in Massachusetts are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and almost 3 million vaccine doses have been administered here, but a potentially more contagious mutant form of the virus first identified in Brazil is now spreading through the state.

New coronavirus cases increased in the week ending Thursday for the fourth straight week across Massachusetts and for the second straight week in Worcester County.

Worcester's two community health centers, which have carried a heavy burden during the coronavirus pandemic, will receive a total of more than $11 million in federal funding as part of March's American Rescue Plan.

UMass Medical School has long been a major component of the UMass system's research operations, itself a growing priority of the university and a point of pride for its national standing.