Health Care

UMass Memorial Medical Center leaders in Worcester are concerned about low levels of available protective equipment and are turning to measures, including reusing safety masks.

Renee Diaz, the business's owner and founder, said she reduced her 25-employee staff down to herself and four employees.

Worcester County had two more reported coronavirus cases Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total to 10, while the Massachusetts total jumped by 38 to 256.

The network, launched in March, enables MEPs in any state to put out a call on behalf of one of its manufacturers to find creative solutions to issues like supply shortages.

UMass Memorial Medical Center will start drive-through coronavirus screening in a special facility at its University Campus in Worcester on Wednesday, and is working to add screening at Marlborough Hospital.

CommCan has seen a spike in the number of transactions at its dispensaries, along with an increase in the amount each customer is buying.

On Monday, Marlborough medical device manufacturer Hologic, Inc. announced it had received emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run coronavirus tests through its Panther system.

As hospitals have been looking to limit coronavirus exposure as much as possible, visitors have been tightly restricted. Milford Regional Medical Center is now going a step further, banning all visitors except for extreme cases.

Marlborough technology company Persivia on Tuesday announced it launched a new module within its healthcare platform it says will use data from multiple sources to identify patients who may have a COVID-19 novel coronavirus infection.

A test for the novel coronavirus run on the Panther system from Marlborough medical device manufacturer Hologic has received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.