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Harrington Hospital Celebrates New ICU
Bigger rooms with increased capacities for equipment and procedures are just some of Harrington Hospital's new ICU accommodations.
Cuteness alert: Meet UMass Memorial Medical Center’s first baby of 2025
Features UMass Memorial Medical Center’s first baby of 2025, Ezra.
New medical pavilion at UMass Memorial arrives amid lingering health care obstacles
Quotes Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health, on the opening of UMass Memorial Health North Pavilion.
COVID rates in Massachusetts schools have been below 1% this academic year
Though kids ages 5 to 11 are starting to get vaccinated against COVID-19, one Central Massachusetts physician said a big drop-off in case counts isn’t expected.
MGB, Tufts, other hospitals terminate hundreds over vaccine mandates
The state’s largest health systems are terminating hundreds of health care workers for failing to meet vaccine mandate deadlines.
Mariano backs bill to provide more scrutiny of hospital expansions
THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE will consider a health care bill that would impose increased scrutiny on hospital expansions, House Speaker Ron Mariano said Thursday.
With pediatric COVID vaccines a reality, experts reexamine whether ‘herd immunity’ is possible
Now that children ages five to 11 are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, some epidemiologists are holding out hope that it might be possible to achieve “herd immunity,” which happens when enough people are immune to a virus to make spreading it unlikely.
Monoclonal antibodies that fight COVID-19 not widely available in Worcester
WORCESTER – Kevin Moore was skeptical.
He wasn’t sure he should get an infusion of monoclonal antibodies to fight off early symptoms from his COVID-19 infection.
Starting this weekend, the COVID-19 will be available to children 5 and up at Mass. pharmacies
MASS. - Jacqueline Fitzpatrick has her 5-year-old son’s COVID-19 vacation appointment booked. She says he has asthma and is immunocompromised.
As COVID continues, UMass Memorial Health doctors continue to urge patients to stay on top of cancer screenings
One of the myriad negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a trend of people missing out on regular cancer screenings.
Worcester hospital administering monoclonal antibodies to COVID patients
WORCESTER, Mass. — Throughout the pandemic, one of the challenges for the medical community has been finding ways to treat a new disease.
Hope is now emerging as some promising new drugs become available.
Worcester hospital administering monoclonal antibodies to COVID patients
WORCESTER, Mass. — Throughout the pandemic, one of the challenges for the medical community has been finding ways to treat a new disease.
Hope is now emerging as some promising new drugs become available.
Combatting senior social isolation throughout New England
Human connection is essential for all of us. In fact, social isolation can be as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and can lead to other serious health problems.
There were 3,078 new breakthrough COVID cases in Mass. last week, the lowest since August
The number of cases of COVID-19 among vaccinated individuals went down last week along with overall infections, according to data released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Joint venture Massachusetts ASC performs first outpatient spine procedure
The Shrewsbury (Mass.) Surgery Center performed its first outpatient spine procedure, the center said Oct. 25.
UMass Memorial Health neurological surgeon Arno Sungarian, MD, performed the outpatient discectomy, which took less than one hour.
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Dozens of high school girls gathered to shadow experienced UMass Memorial OB-GYNs in the operating room and learn from their experiences in a roundtable discussion.
Learn more about this collaboration with @UMassChan and @girls_inc https://t.co/aA4ayRHOd0— UMass Memorial Health (@umassmemorial) July 23, 2024