Year: 2010

Join with nurses from across Massachusetts at the MNA Lobby day on Wednesday March 31st to spread the message that Nurses are not punching bags! Hundreds of nurses from across… Read more »

Julia Raneri, Acupuncturists Without Borders’ Haiti operations manager, performs a treatment for a patient in Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital. Waves of medical teams have poured into Haiti since a powerful earthquake… Read more »

By Erica Werner and Alan Fram, Associated Press  |  February 25, 2010 WASHINGTON – The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal the health insurance industry’s exemption from federal antitrust oversight,… Read more »

By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  February 25, 2010 The state’s largest independent doctors group is curtailing referrals to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a move it says is… Read more »

Johan Spanner for The New York TimesIstanbul has a program to secure its schools against earthquakes. Above, construction at the Atakoy Lisesi school.

Obama offers plan for summit, envisions way to bypass GOP By Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff  |  February 23, 2010 WASHINGTON – President Obama launched a final drive… Read more »

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Heart alarm was off; device issues spotlight a growing national problem By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  February 21, 2010 A Massachusetts General Hospital patient died last month after the… Read more »

By Kevin Sack and Robert Pear, New York Times  |  February 19, 2010 WASHINGTON – Facing relentless fiscal pressure and exploding demand for government health care, virtually every state is… Read more »