Health Care

In a flash this spring, Reliant Medical Group in Worcester was suddenly using video and phone technology to have patients meet with health providers for about a quarter of the visits that used to take place in person.

Southborough’s RxAdvance is a smaller player in an industry dominated by giants like CVS’ Caremark or Express Scripts.

UMass Medical School is conducting an online survey in Worcester and surrounding towns to assess how coronavirus has affected residents, including their health, finances and employment.

More than half of primary care medical offices are weighing furloughs or layoffs and nearly half of medical procedural specialist offices are considering closing their practices because of the financial hit they've taken from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.

A Clark University physics professor has secured a $200,000 grant to study how coronavirus is transmitted, potential mitigation factors and how another pandemic might be avoided.

Sunovion, a Marlborough pharmaceutical company, has won Canadian regulatory approval for a drug treating episodes in those with Parkinson's disease.

The new cases in Worcester County bring the total to 12,014 since the pandemic began. That tally exceeds that of 18 entire states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Worcester County reported 16 new coronavirus cases Monday and one death, which is the lowest one-day increase in the death toll since April 9, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Baker announced Monday that free testing will be available at at least 52 pop-up testing sites around the state on Wednesday and Thursday, and said people should be tested even if they are feeling fine.

In the wake of the police killing of unarmed Minneapolis man George Floyd and the subsequent protests against institutional racism, Dr. Mark Johnson from UMass Memorial Health Care said Central Massachusetts business leaders have an important role to play in creating real change.