Health Care

MassBio, a Cambridge nonprofit trade association representing the Massachusetts life science industry, will begin a nationwide search for a new CEO following its current president and CEO’s departure in early 2021.

UMass Memorial Health Care expects to receive 1,950 doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with priority given first to frontline caregivers.

A Worcester Business Journal webcast scheduled for Thursday will tackle the role of telehealth services in the future of medicine, featuring medical officials from around Central Mass.

New coronavirus cases in Worcester County smashed records this week, with 4,070 new cases as of Thursday, continuing a distressing post-Thanksgiving trend.

A Massachusetts state board has approved tax breaks for business expansions in Leominster, Marlborough and Webster, as well as a new vacant-storefront incentive program for Westborough.

Dr. Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, is urging the Worcester-based health system's employees to get the coronavirus vaccine when it's expected to begin giving doses next week.

Fitchburg State University will make $100,000 worth of upgrades to its nursing simulation lab thanks to a grant from the Worcester-based George I. Alden Trust.

A gene therapy startup company at Worcester's Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives incubator has raised $13 million in new funding to be used to establish a manufacturing facility in Lexington.

Worcester’s City Council voted 8-3 to raise the city’s commercial property tax rate Wednesday night, while lowering the residential property tax rate.

The leaders of UMass Memorial Health Care and Saint Vincent Hospital said Tuesday they expect to be able to begin to provide coronavirus vaccines to their healthcare workers next week.