Health Care

UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) will post a $29 million operating surplus in fiscal 2014, according to preliminary results the Worcester-based health care system shared with bond investors this week.

In an ongoing fight over proposed staffing cuts, nurses at HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster will picket Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the union representing the nurses.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced plans to build a new treatment facility in a partnership designed to expand health care access to veterans.

A professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is one of six biomedical researchers to be awarded with a Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his co-discovery in genetics, the Worcester school announced Monday.

Medical diagnostics firm Oxford Immunotec of Marlborough saw a 24-percent year-over-year increase in revenue as third-quarter sales skyrocketed in the United States and Asia, the company reported Tuesday.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester will partner with Atlanta-based medical device firm LumaMed in a joint clinical study to evaluate the effectiveness of an imaging platform used in breast cancer surgery, and possibly other types of cancer surgeries.

Fallon Health of Worcester will provide services to a group of senior citizens in Western New York through a new joint venture with a residential community in that area.

State officials have heard concerns about "supply chain shortages" for personal protective equipment and are monitoring the situation as the U.S. prepares for potential Ebola cases.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association has been on the move in Central Massachusetts in recent months. In July, registered nurses at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer voted to join the union. Two months later, RNs at Athol Hospital did the same.

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