News in 2019

Medical and pharmacy students were "embedded" in service organizations this fall as part of their Population Health Clerkship. They presented their experiences to an audience of legislators, community members, and faculty at UMass Medical School's Baystate campus.

Armed with information about your family’s health history, you and your doctor can take proactive steps to keep you healthy. This Thanksgiving, take the opportunity to talk to your relatives about their health.

WGBY 57 Connecting Point:  Baystate Medical Center hosts a forum on first response for veterans in crisis.

In this Voices of UMassMed podcast you'll learn how visits to a grocery store, jail, homeless shelter, and a car mechanic are used to teach population health concepts to medical students in Baystate's PURCH track.

Baystate pulmonologist Dr. Pinto-Plata offers tips for controlling asthma successfully.

Thousands of walkers and runners came out to support the 2019 Rays of Hope Walk & Run Toward the Cure of Breast Cancer.

No One Dies Alone is a program that offers companionship and support to patients who are nearing death and have no family or friends to sit with them at the end of their lives.

Two studies have shown there are a number of physical and mental benefits to being grateful. Learn some easy ways you can show gratitude during the holidays.

Dr. Crisi explains the pathologist’s role in breast cancer treatment and diagnosis.

A diagnosis of breast and other cancers prompts people to learn more about their family histories and their risk of inheriting a cancer susceptibility gene.