Health Care

Open Sky Community Services, a Worcester human services nonprofit, is participating in a study sponsored by UMass Medical School in Worcester on how art therapy can help those with serious mental illness.

Demand for COVID-19 vaccine doses among the roughly one million people who became eligible to receive them Thursday morning was overwhelming.

UMass Medical School has been given a major boost in its efforts to start a COVID-19 vaccination corps to help quickly inoculate the public with $435,000 in new funding.

A group of 20 Assumption University biology students is spending the spring semester training to become contact tracers to help track the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

People age 65 and older, residents and staff of low-income and affordable senior housing, and individuals with two or more health conditions that put them at higher risk from COVID-19 will be able to start booking vaccine appointments Thursday.

Four cities in Central Massachusetts have been chosen among 20 across Massachusetts to be part of a new statewide program to help with coronavirus vaccinations in underserved communities.

A new coronavirus variant is spreading far more in Worcester County than in other parts of Massachusetts, with 14 new cases reported Sunday by the state Department of Public Health.

UMass Memorial Health Care is temporarily stopping new appointments for COVID-19 vaccines for patients because of a dose shortage, with the announcement to staff on Friday coming less than a week after the Worcester hospital system opened a patient vaccine center at the Mercantile Center.

New coronavirus cases in Worcester County have fallen so far from such a high peak in the past few weeks that cases are finally nearly back down to their previous high from last spring.

Saint Vincent Hospital's 800 registered nurses have voted to strike, alleging conditions at the Worcester hospital have jeopardized the safety of their patients.