Health Care

Worcester's Fallon Health continues to perform well financially during the coronavirus pandemic, posting on Friday a net income of $25.4 million for third quarter ending in September.

Fitchburg State University will end the fall semester remotely in light of fast-rising coronavirus cases both in Fitchburg and more broadly, the school announced Friday.

New coronavirus cases have nearly doubled in the past week in Worcester County, according to new state data on Thursday, mirroring a dramatic rise in cases bringing numbers close to their spring peak.

Worcester nonprofit Seven Hills Foundation has signed a lease to occupy an office on Gold Star Boulevard to bring three of its affiliates under a single roof.

UMass Memorial Health Care is working with state officials on plans for potentially opening a field hospital in Worcester as was done during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring at the DCU Center.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is no longer allowing visitors to its University Campus in Worcester in a new policy started Tuesday night.

With its CEO calling it a "great day for science and humanity," Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced Monday morning that its vaccine candidate was more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, with no serious safety concerns observed.

The rate of new coronavirus cases in the past two weeks has nearly doubled in Fitchburg, with the city showing far and away the most severe outbreak in Central Massachusetts, according to data released late Friday.

State officials are committed to keeping the health care system open during a second surge of the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the Baker administration's COVID-19 command center said Friday.

Coronavirus cases in Worcester County reached a more than five-month high in the week ending Thursday, with nearly 900 new cases.