Year: 2009

By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff  |  August 13, 2009 Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the… Read more »

Aug 12, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – A task force of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), charged with making recommendations about how to protect healthcare workers against novel H1N1 influenza, today… Read more »

AS THE United States works on a comprehensive global health strategy as part of its commitment to fighting world poverty, it faces an opportune moment to move beyond tracking the… Read more »

STATE ADOPTS EMERGENCY RULES TO EXPAND POOL OF FLU VACCINE ADMINISTRATORS By Gintautas Dumcius STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, AUG. 12, 2009…..Faced with budget cutbacks at the local level and the need… Read more »

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A unique state program that helps pay most health insurance costs for 27,000 unemployed Massachusetts residents is on the cusp of going broke, setting off a debate between healthcare advocates… Read more »

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – President Obama traveled to a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium here yesterday to counter what he called “wild misrepresentations’’ about his proposed healthcare overhaul… Read more »

HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi flashed some mighty sharp fangs last week at the insurance industry. The industry, along with drug companies, hospitals, and medical associations, is trying to torpedo government… Read more »

PUNDITS and politicians who oppose universal healthcare for the nation have a new straw man to kick around – the Massachusetts reform plan that covers more than 97 percent of… Read more »