Health Care

Devina Bhalla, a junior at Tufts University in Medford and an editorial intern at Worcester Business Journal, joins the WBJ Podcast to discuss how the world for the emerging workforce has turned upside down in the past four months.

There were nearly 500 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Massachusetts over the weekend and the percentage of tests that come back positive for the coronavirus is rising.

Nichols College, which expects to welcome students for the fall semester starting Aug. 26, said Friday it will provide free regular coronavirus testing for students, faculty and staff.

Worcester County had a reported 234 new coronavirus cases and six fatalities between July 17 and Thursday, with cases generally remaining low as the economy has slowly reopened, first with outdoor dining and later with indoor dining and shopping.

Luckily for Jermaine Smith, owner of the Caribbean Press food truck of Worcester, the food truck industry was easily adaptable for COVID-19 operations.

With the sudden closure of its store in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, used and rare bookseller Bedlam Book Cafe of Worcester had to rethink its business and shift to online platforms.

Marlborough medical firm Quest Diagnostics has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use specimen pooling during its diagnostic test for COVID-19.

Various nursing jobs, from nursing assistants to nurse practitioners, make higher salaries in the Worcester metropolitan area and across Massachusetts than national averages, according to new federal data released Wednesday.

Cases of coronavirus in the United States could be six to 24 times higher than reported figures officially show, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published Tuesday.

Central Massachusetts residents are more likely than most to say they always wear a mask or other face covering any time they're outside and expect to be within six feet of another person.