Robert Bauer, who was injured in a small plane crash in Stow, MA, reunited with Flight Nurse Andrea Knox, on the day he was being released from UMass Memorial Medical Center.
As new weekly coronavirus cases saw a “small uptick” in Worcester, city officials announced the senior center vaccination would be closing by the end of the month.
City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. announced during the weekly COVID briefing that the senior center, which began vaccinating residents on Jan. 11, would administer its final doses on March 30.
Officials from UMass Memorial Health Care and community leaders from Worcester are poised to answer questions about health equity and the COVID-19 vaccine during a forum Thursday morning.
The virtual forum, moderated by MassLive reporter Melissa Hanson, is being live-streamed from the UMass Memorial Facebook page at 11 a.m.
The serious lower leg injuries Tiger Woods sustained in a car crash on Tuesday typically lead to a long and perilous recovery, calling into question his ability to play professional golf again, according to medical experts who have treated similar injuries.
Athletes with severe leg injuries thought to doom their careers have managed to come back — the quarterback Alex Smith returned to playing football last season after a gruesome leg break, and the golfer Ben Hogan returned decades ago after a car accident.
Central Massachusetts residents who have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine program will be able to get answers Thursday during a health equity forum being live-streamed by UMass Memorial Health Care.
Across Massachusetts, hospitals are seeing a dramatic decline in the number of COVID-19 patients as more and more residents get vaccinated and cases plummet.
UMass Memorial Health's Mobile Vaccination team paid a visit to Worcester's Boys and Girls Club on Wednesday.
They vaccinated nearly 40 individuals.
Staff also visited homes of people who were unable to visit the site.
It's part of UMass Memorial's effort to reach underserved neighborhoods.
Testing has always been the first line of defense in the fight against COVID-19. And experts agree that even if the latest surge in Massachusetts has eased, that’s still the case.
“The numbers are decreasing and people are feeling safer, but this is when we need to test further,” said Dr. Kedardespande of the Metro West Medical Center in Framingham.
Marlborough – If all goes according to plan, Marlborough will soon have a state vaccination site open for not only the city’s residents, but all Massachusetts citizens.
Dozens of people streamed through the revolving doors at the entrance of the Remillard Family Pavillion last week. Others opted for an open, more traditional doorway, just to the right to enter one of the buildings on the campus of UMass Memorial Health Care’s during the morning pedestrian commute to the hospital.
Like moths to light, regardless of which entrance, they converged near a woman behind a sheet of plexiglass, who offered a mask to anyone that walked by.
They’ve been on the front lines of the pandemic for almost a year. They’ve battled under grueling conditions. They’ve saved lives and watched people die. And a staggering number have become sick themselves.
UMass Memorial Health Care and the Clinton Senior Center worked together to bring the coronavirus vaccine to seniors in the town.
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center is welcoming a four-legged, tail-wagging furry friend to its staff Friday.
An in-residence assisted therapy dog named “Valentina” is officially becoming a full-time resident of the medical center as part of the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation’s Dogs for Joy program.
Is the COVID-19 vaccine effective if you don’t experience a reaction after receiving it?
The two coronavirus vaccines have seen emergency approval in the U.S. — one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and the other by Moderna — may cause side effects after they’re administered, such as pain and swelling at the injection site, and/or fever, chills and headache, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As a Black man, Brian Gibbs believes people of color must speak up and communicate with others to help them understand that the U.S. has left so many Black and brown communities vulnerable and neglected.
"There's a need to have a more honest and transparent conversation to understand the risk that communities of color are disproportionately burdened," said Gibbs, who was recently appointed vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at UMass Memorial Health Care.
UMass Memorial Health Care opened a new COVID-19 vaccine site at downtown Worcester's Mercantile Center on Monday in the latest step to dole out as many vaccines as possible.
The center is open, at least at first, only to UMass Memorial patients aged 75 and older, and by appointment only. The Mercantile Center has donated a big empty space for vaccinations and testing, in the same space that has long been used for coronavirus testing.
The city hopes to vaccinate 1,500 or more people over age 75 against COVID-19 by Saturday, officials said, with signups possibly starting as soon as Monday night.
In a call Monday afternoon, Dr. Michael P. Hirsh, the city's medical director, said the city will conduct clinics Friday and Saturday that people can sign up for on the state's website.
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, officials across the country hoped a “new normal” would arrive with the debut of a vaccine.
The vaccines have arrived, but “normal” remains months away, according to Dr. Michael Hirsh.
Cronavirus case numbers continue falling a little more than a month after Christmas from what had been record highs in Massachusetts around the holidays.
A total of 3,007 new cases in Worcester County in the week ending Thursday is the lowest since early December — though still far higher than the area's first peak last spring. Massachusetts had 25,951 new cases, also the lowest since early December, according to the state Department of Public Health.
While science was crucial to the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine, good old-fashioned trust is key to making the nationwide vaccination effort a success.
With this is mind, the UMass Medical School, in collaboration with the Worcester Department of Health and Human Services, sponsored a webinar Thursday addressing the hesitancy of people in the Latino community to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Robert Finberg, of UMass Medical School, answers questions about COVID vaccine rollout, the vaccine supply and variants.
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