Year: 2009

By LAURIE TARKAN Kim Roscoe’s son, Jaxon, was born three months early, weighing two and a half pounds. But for nine days he did exceedingly well in the neonatal intensive… Read more »

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said yesterday it will probably be Thanksgiving before many Americans are fully immunized against the novel H1N1 flu virus, the Associated Press (AP)… Read more »

By MARIA CHENG The Associated Press Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:43 PM LONDON — About half of Hong Kong’s health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says,… Read more »

It is with great sadness that we learned this morning of the death of our friend, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. 

HARTFORD, Conn., August 25, 2009 –  Aetna (NYSE:

Dear WING USA Friends, According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), healthcare workers have the highest rate of MSDs in the country, more than seven times the national… Read more »

MDPH H1N1 Vaccine Program – Provider Registration InformationMDPH now has a website (

By PAUL KRUGMANIt was the blooper heard round the world. In an editorial denouncing Democratic health reform plans, Investor’s Business Daily tried to frighten its readers by declaring that in… Read more »

Legal Obligations to the Dangerous Patient Carolyn Buppert, NP, JD Published: 08/18/2009 Duty and Dangerous Patients When a nurse encounters a patient who is likely to harm himself or another,… Read more »

Getting ready for flu By Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent  |  August 24, 2009School nurses work on the front lines of children’s health care, says Mimi Stamer, president of the Massachusetts… Read more »