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A year of pandemic learning has emphasized key issues that existed before the pandemic and induced efforts to provide resources to these key areas.

With Mimi Sheller of Philadelphia’s Drexel University just named incoming dean, The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic University has launched as a formalizing and furthering of something the university has done all along: global projects. 

Worcester’s restaurant scene may soon be able to take permanent advantage of the expanded capacity and increased amenity offered by outdoor dining, as the pandemic-induced provision will continue beyond the lifting of the Massachusetts’ state of emergency on June 15.

If there’s a healthcare equivalent of the tech startup cliche of starting a business out of someone’s garage, that’s about exactly what Dr. Sean Lordan did.

Heart transplants may be prevented with lifestyle changes, such as diet, physical activity, stopping smoking and moderate weight loss.

Filling positions hasn’t been easy over the past few years. That’s related to both pressures created by the COVID-19 pandemic and longer-term issues in the healthcare industry.

The city of Worcester and its healthcare providers embraced novel approaches to handle Massachusetts’ other health crisis in a year where the coronavirus pandemic took center stage.

The coronavirus pandemic has opened up a new world, one workers aren’t eager to give up.

In 1994, Dr. Raj Devarajan founded the practice Middlesex Digestive Gastrointestinology, and then spent the next 12 years preparing to open his own outpatient center, Middlesex Digestive Health & Endoscopy Center, fulfilling his prediction of patients seeking out more convenient and lower-cost care.