Health Care

UMass Medical School has named a professor of population and quantitative health sciences as its first vice provost for health equity.

Marlborough medical technology device company Hologic plans to launch a nearly $1-billion private offering to refinance existing unsecured notes due in 2025, the company announced on Monday.

Just over a week into September, Worcester has already seen a major jump in the number of reported coronavirus cases. The City of Worcester said Friday afternoon it has recorded 140 cases in the past week, a 43% jump from a week prior and the highest weekly total since early June.

Worcester County had a reported 195 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths in the week ending Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

YOU Inc., a Worcester behavioral health and education agency, has sold an educational campus straddling the Templeton and Winchendon line for $3.4 million to a Florida addiction services firm.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester has been recognized as one of 16 health facilities in Massachusetts that are leaders on LGBTQ inclusion, the health center said Wednesday.

What might normally be the most benign announcement — visitors to Milford Regional Medical Center may now use the front lobby — is another sign of the hospital's return to normalcy following the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two UMass Medical School researchers and Waters Corp. of Milford have received a share of an $8.3-million Massachusetts state grant to advance breast cancer imaging technology.

Two Lancaster human service agencies are forming an affiliation and a plan to eventually merge.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit, and Abby’s House in Worcester was as essential as ever.