This is the story of an earnest English teacher and the precocious 10-year-old who hated him. It’s about how that girl grew up to pull off several lifetimes’ worth of death-defying feats. And how, a few weeks ago, she performed the most spectacular one of all.

A physician whose work has focused on addiction medicine, homelessness and expanding access to care is Worcester’s next medical director, city officials announced Friday.

This summer, Worcester faces a challenge and an opportunity. Due to funding cuts in the Massachusetts YouthWorks program, hundreds of young people who are trained, motivated, and ready to work will not be placed in summer jobs.

It may not be the first thing that jumps to mind about the World Cup, but health is front and center for Massachusetts...

While we’re not far removed from a pandemic that deeply impacted life in Massachusetts, UMass Memorial Health Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Sandeep Jubbal said this virus does not spread like COVID-19.

UMass Memorial Health in Charlton is a test site for a new tablet-based screening tool.

It was a once in a lifetime event for the maternity nurse who resuscitated a tiny infant, born prematurely at 25 weeks in the early hours of a September morning in 1972.

Dolan has also gained extensive real-world health care experience through Blackstone Valley Tech’s cooperative education program with UMass Memorial Medical Center in Marlborough. In addition, he participates in an emergency medicine internship at Milford Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit teaching hospital within the UMass Memorial Health system.

Dr. Laura Gibson, pediatric infectious disease specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center, discusses congenital CMV being the most common infectious cause of birth defects and the importance of universal newborn screening and early diagnosis.

UMass Memorial Health is participating in a first-of-its-kind national study using the Mirai AI tool to predict breast cancer risk, which identified 4,000 high-risk patients out of 65,000 screened and detected cancer in six study participants.