Health Care

More than half of nursing homes in a new survey say they're operating at a financial loss roughly five months into the coronavirus pandemic, and more than two out of three said they won't be able to sustain operations for another year at the current pace.

UMass Medical School's executive vice chancellor for innovation and business development will depart the Worcester college next year.

Diagnoses of six major types of cancer dropped 46% in the early weeks of the pandemic, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association using Quest Diagnostics data.

COVID-19 has chaotically and deeply affected the Central Massachusetts’ economy, according to a group of panelists on a WBJ webinar Tuesday entitled “Mid-year Economic Review.” 

The coronavirus pandemic is boosting the life science industry in Greater Boston, including suburban areas sometimes left in the long shadows of hubs like Kendall Square.

More than two dozen of the 91 long-term healthcare facilities in Central Massachusetts, including nursing homes, have violated the state's requirements that staff be regularly tested for coronavirus, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Dr. PETER ANTKOWIAK has been named the medical director of the emergency department at Harrington HealthCare System,...

This year’s 40 Under Forty class is certainly like no other. Although full of the archetypal up-and-coming leaders of Central Massachusetts business organizations, each member of the Class of 2020 has found a way to thrive in the midst of an international crisis.

Chizoma Nosike wouldn’t have known it a year ago, but a federal business loan may be the reason her company, Acclaim Home Health Care in Worcester, is still in operation.

The second quarter of the year, when the region was struggling to make it out of the...