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'I Didn't Think This Would Happen to Me:' Uxbridge 19-Year-Old Shares Story of Her Rare Heart Attack
A 19-year-old Uxbridge woman is raising awareness in honor of American Heart Month. Living with a heart condition her whole life, Adelaide Greenwald was just 18 when one morning, things just didn't feel right.
UMass Memorial Completes Groton ER Foundation, Will See Patients in March 2027
As construction workers screwed in the last foundational beam of what will become UMass Memorial Health’s satellite emergency department in Groton, the healthcare system announced the facility is set to accept its first patient come March 2027.
UMass Named Among Nation's Best Hospitals in Annual Newsweek List
UMass Memorial Medical Center has been named one of the top hospitals in the country, ranking 61st nationwide in the newly released World’s Best Hospitals 2026 list from Newsweek and data firm Statista.
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135 Hospital and Health System CIOs To Know | 2026
Chief information officers leverage cutting-edge technologies to streamline operations and elevate care delivery. The IT leaders recognized on this list are driving forward-thinking strategies that create meaningful improvements for both patients and providers.
Nine Central Mass. Firms Named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women List
Nine Central Massachusetts companies have been recognized for their efforts to promote sex equality within their operations as they’ve made Newsweek’s 2026 list of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women.
UMass Memorial To Restart Hospital-at-Home Admissions as Shutdown Ends
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., will begin accepting admissions to its hospital-at-home program Feb. 4 after pausing new admissions during a partial government shutdown, the health system confirmed to Becker’s.
Congress has done it’s job, now it’s time for us to do ours!"
Constantinos Michaelidis, MD | Medical Director of UMass Memorial Health’s Hospital at Home program
Forging Guns Into Tools of Growth
Blacksmith John Hayden fires up the forge, stokes the coals, and heats the rifle barrel of a disabled Remington Sportsman 58 shotgun until it glows the color of “Orange Crush.” Then he carefully transfers it to an anvil, puffs his cheeks out and smashes it with a hammer.
What Is Lupus? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Lupus is an autoimmune disease — meaning the immune system doesn’t function properly and attacks a person’s own body by mistake — that affects multiple organs throughout the body.
Massachusetts Home Hospital Programs Face Another Shutdown
Massachusetts health care systems are yet again preparing to pause their home hospital programs as the federal government barrels toward another shutdown.
Spike in Shoveling-Related Heart Attacks Prompts Warning From UMass Memorial Doctors
Officials at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester are warning residents to take it easy shoveling snow after they saw a spike in shoveling-related heart attacks on Monday.
Shoveling Snow Can Create a ‘Perfect Storm’ to Trigger a Heart Attack, Doctor Warns
Cardiologist Youssef Rahban was alarmed during his shift on Monday at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, when ICU nurses saw an unexpected spike in heart attack patients.
Mass. Getting Ready for Dangerous Cold, Major Snowstorm
A dramatic drop in temperatures has begun, with frigid weather continuing through Saturday before a foot of snow or more falls on much of New England Sunday.
How Accurate Is HBO’s Hit Drama ‘The Pitt?’ Local ER Doctors and Nurses Describe the Reality of Their Jobs.
Emergency room staff cut the clothes off an unresponsive homeless man, and several rats leap from his body onto the floor. Doctors examine a child who won’t wake up and discover he ate one of his father’s cannabis gummies.
Dr. Peter Smulowitz Discusses the Flu with MyFM
Kids, Parents, Grandparents; everyone is getting sick. What do we know (about this year's flu)? Listen to the interview to learn more.
The vaccine is still very effective against reducing severe disease, hospitalization and death...get your vaccine, and it's not too late for that.
Dr. Peter Smulowitz | Emergency Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Group
Health Insurers Face New Restrictions as Healey Moves to End Prior Authorizations, Long Hated by Many
Massachusetts health insurers will face new restrictions around the much-maligned practice of prior authorizations, eliminating the red tape around how patients access some drugs and services, Governor Maura Healey said Wednesday.
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