Health Care

Worcester County has had fewer new coronavirus cases in the past week, showing a slight downward trend echoing throughout Massachusetts, which follows a period of worry among public officials when cases were on the rise again.

Kaon Interactive Inc., headquartered Maynard, found its sales software increasingly helpful to businesses in the wake of COVID-19. 

Thirty-five percent of Latinx Massachusetts residents have gotten food from a food bank since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a new poll, and 12 percent reported someone in the household had experienced symptoms of the respiratory disease.

A 17,000-square-foot medical office building overlooking I-290 just east of downtown Worcester has sold for just over $5.4 million.

An unusually large share of coronavirus deaths in Worcester County — nearly four out of five — have taken place in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, according to state data.

Public health officials are anxiously awaiting a vaccine to help end the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, and pharmaceutical companies are racing to bring something to the market.

Massachusetts trails national rates of how many of its coronavirus cases are in children, but those up to age 19 make up 6,900 of the state's cases since the pandemic began, according to a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

Worcester and Framingham, the two most populous Central Massachusetts communities, along with four others have made a new state advisory list of communities at elevated risk for coronavirus infections.

The senior business lending office for Webster Five bank joins The Weekly Business Report to discuss the bank's backing of the Broadway Hospitality Group's two-story, rooftop restaurant.

A Marlborough manufacturer of body sculpting products has sued to prevent Irish and German companies from importing products it says infringe on its patents.