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Your Diabetes Sick-Day Plan
When you’re sick, even with just a cold, your blood glucose level may rise. Knowing what to do if you get sick, talking to your care team and having the right supplies on hand are important. Not sure what your sick-day plan is? Be sure to talk to your diabetes provider.
Your Sick-Day Plan
Follow these important rules whenever you’re not feeling well.
- Continue taking diabetes medication unless your care team instructs otherwise.
- Don’t take over-the-counter cold or flu remedies without asking your care team.
- Stick to your normal meal plan. If you can’t stomach eating, instead try fruit juice, regular
UMass Memorial Medical Center | News and Media | 4.16.25
Husband’s gift, wife’s miracle: the kidney that saved 2 lives
When Erin Murphy thinks about how her husband helped her receive a kidney transplant much sooner than expected, she has only one way to describe it.
“It’s a miracle,” she said.
Murphy, 51, was 40 when she began to feel tired and she found out that she had polycystic kidney disease, which causes cysts to grow in the kidney and disrupts normal kidney function.
UMass Memorial Medical Center | News and Media | 4.11.25
Pipeline Dreams Expo showcases health equity research by local high school students
More than two dozen high school students exploring careers in medicine, research and public health presented their research at UMass Chan Medical School on Wednesday, April 9, during an event marking their successful completion of the 2025 Pipeline Dreams program.
“I am interested in medicine because I believe medicine is the heart of activism and it affects all scopes of life,” said Nakeisha Moise, a junior at Worcester’s North High School. “The more we invest in health, the more we invest in the advancement of our world.”
Giving, HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Milford Regional, UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Memorial Medical Group | News and Media | 4.10.25
UMass Memorial Health couple preparing for the 129th Boston Marathon
Lauren Murphy is preparing to run the Boston Marathon and she’s got her husband Brian Rettger by her side.
“This is my third marathon in six months," Murphy said. "But Brian is actually the one who got me into running during COVID.”
HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center | News and Media | 4.10.25
UMass Memorial to buy Groton property for new Nashoba Valley emergency facility
After UMass Memorial Health previously announced it would open an emergency department in the Nashoba Valley region in the wake of Nashoba Valley Medical Center’s closure, the Worcester-based system is taking next steps to acquire a Groton site to open a satellite emergency facility.
Children's Medical Center, Harrington, HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Milford Regional, UMass Memorial Medical Center | News and Media | 4.10.25
In unanimous vote, Worcester health board pushes vaccinations, dismissing RFK Jr. stance
The Board of Health wants the publi
UMass Memorial Medical Center | News and Media | 4.9.25
Mass. physician assistants want more autonomy in providing health care. Why it matters
Facing a statewide health care workforce shortage, advocates for physician assistants spoke last week at the State House to support legislation that eliminates restrictive supervision requirements, as they aim to expand care access in underserved areas.
UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Memorial Medical Group | News and Media | 4.3.25
Measles, myths and more: Fighting false claims in disease control
At first, it sounded like an isolated and tragic incident, but one perhaps too far away to cause any worries here in New England: an outbreak of measles in Texas, resulting in two deaths.
Children's Medical Center, Community Healthlink, Harrington, HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Milford Regional, UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Memorial Medical Group | News and Media | 4.8.25
Care delivery changes reshaping hospital landscape
The splintering of Steward Health Care last year resulted in the transfer of six hospital campuses, the closure of two others, and a reshaping of the state's health care world. That might be just the start of a rethinking of the role hospitals can play in Massachusetts, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh said Monday.