Health Care

Out of the 23 highest-paid state employees in 2019, 10 work for UMass Medical School in Worcester, according to the WBJ Research Department, which sourced its data from the State’s Comptroller Office.

Nursing homes in Central Massachusetts have shown better compliance with state requirements that staff are regularly tested for coronavirus, and that testing results are reported to help gauge the spread of the pandemic.

Worcester County continues to see relatively low numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases towards the end of August as case numbers remain fair below their spring peaks.

UMass Medical School is enrolling healthy volunteers for a trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine, the Worcester school announced Thursday.

As an essential business dedicated to cleaning oil spills and disposing of hazardous waste, New England Disposal Technologies, Inc. of Sutton was primed to add coronavirus disinfecting to its offered services. 

CVS Health is adding safe opioid disposal units at nine Worcester County locations that didn't already have the capability, the pharmacy chain announced Thursday.

Worcester insurer Fallon Health has appointed an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as its newest board member.

UMass Medical School has renewed a five-year, $30-million clinical and translational sciences award from the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers at MassBiologics, an arm of Worcester's UMass Medical School, have published a study suggesting antibodies may provide immunity in the respiratory system against coronavirus.

Coronavirus testing has been going on in Massachusetts for nearly six months now, but until now the state didn't have campuses full of students to worry about including.