Year: 2010

Action item – Place a phone call to your member of Congress!: Call your U.S. representative in his or her Washington, DC, office and use 1-2 of the talking points… Read more »

Temple Tells Nurses: The Constitution Doesn’t Apply to You "If you want your constitutional rights, you need to go somewhere else." -Robert Birnbrauer, Human Resources, Temple University Hospital A strike by… Read more »

By EDMUND H. MAHONY The Hartford Courant April 2, 2010HARTFORD — – A former Pfizer scientist who claims that she has been paralyzed by inadvertent exposure to a virus engineered… Read more »

It spatters the pink bedsheet that serves as her wall, crawls up the acacia branch that plays the role of wobbly tent pole and forms the floor she lies on…. Read more »

Below is a story that appeared in the Patriot Ledger about our fight for a fair contract, safe staffing and to be treated with respect. Now that this has appeared,… Read more »

By Colneth Smiley Jr. Thursday, April 1, 2010 – They care. They converged. They conquered. Bay State lawmakers passed legislation to stiffen penalties for those who assault health-care workers as… Read more »

Mass. General rethinks when to do angioplasties By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  April 1, 2009 Public reporting of hospital death rates may be pushing Massachusetts cardiac specialists to treat… Read more »

Test of rapid organ donations raises controversy By Rob Stein, Washington Post  |  March 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — In the hope of expanding a controversial form of organ donation into… Read more »

By Lane Lambert