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Karim Alavi, M.D., M.P.H., from UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and colleagues developed guidelines for evaluation and management of chronic constipation.

The authors present six strong recommendations and seven conditional recommendations.

“We have gone from an average 2.7 miles drive, to a 12 or 16 miles drive to either Leominster or Concord,” Johnston said in a phone call Friday. “On Wednesday, we didn’t have at least one of our two ambulances in town pretty much all day … . It is just as we thought it would be.

Features Robin the Robot, a support Robot in the pediatric wing at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus and its’ interactions with five-year-old patient Levi Pasquino.

Mentions UMass Memorial Health's efforts in helping to bring down overdose deaths in Worcester. 

The 2,125 purple flags at UMass Memorial Health represent each life lost to an opioid-related overdose in Massachusetts in 2023. The annual event is about honoring the story behind every single flag and raising awareness.

Dr. Richard Ellison, immunologist and infectious disease specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center, is interviewed about mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE).

UMass Memorial Health is showing off a new ambulance that brings the resources of a life flight helicopter to the streets.

Letter from Dr. Luu Ireland of UMass Memorial Medical Center applauding the Legislature’s passage of the maternal health bill.

This segment features the 50th anniversary of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and features Chair of Pediatrics, Larry Rhein, MD, MPH, and former NICU patient, Todd Bishop, who is now a healthy father with two children of his own. 

Dr. Michael Hirsh says COVID-19 isn't going away anytime soon. In fact, as the virus continues to mutate, Hirsh says it looks to be a permanent fixture like the flu.

"Their mission is to spread widely, but not necessarily make us so sick," Hirsh said.

The list features the Medical Center as a leading nonprofit academic medical center with excellence in cutting-edge medical technology and specialist services.

The UMass Memorial Health Emergency Department said it began seeing a significant rise in opioid overdoses two weeks ago, and a veterinary anesthetic appears to have entered the street supply of drugs in the city.