The national Legal Services Corporation has awarded Worcester-based Community Legal Aid a two-year Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant valued at more than $200,000, according to a statement Wednesday from UMass Memorial Health Care, Community Legal Aid and Legal Services Corporation.
A partnership between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Connecticut Health Center has been selected for up to $29.2 million in gunding as part of the federal Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative.
Two teams of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have studied a key step in HIV-1 infection — and their findings point to a possible way to fight the virus.
Some of the fastest-growing occupations in health care do not require direct patient care, creating job opportunities for both new entrants and medical career-changers who can get a new lease on the use of their field of knowledge.
When people find out what Dr. Mark Brenner, the chief radiation oncologist at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, does for a living, he says he often gets one response in particular.
Technocopia, a nonprofit maker space in Worcester, will merge its operations with education center Worcester Think Tank and wood and machine shop IA Design as the organization prepares to move into the Printer's Building in downtown Worcester.