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 »
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Aug 24 09 Globe Interview: MSNO’s President Mimi Stamer: “Getting Ready for Flu” (info for school nurses and parents)
Aug 24 09 Legal Obligations to the Dangerous Patient
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 »
NYTimes Aug 17 09 “The Swiss Menace” (comments on British, French, Canadian, MA health care systems)
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 »
Money-Driven Medicine
This Friday, August 28, Bill Moyers Journal will preview excerpts from "MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE," the powerful new documentary on the medical-industrial complex, produced by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the… Read more »
ABC-White house warns massive swine flu spread
WH Warns Massive Swine Flu Spread Dire Report Says 50 Percent Infection Rate, Up to 90,000 Deaths Possible This Flu Season From H1N1 By BRIAN HARTMAN, SARAH HERNDON and LEE… Read more »
Information on Provider Registration for H1N1 Vaccine
MDPH H1N1 Vaccine Program – Provider Registration InformationMDPH now has a website (
Aug 24 09 Info from Al DeMaria MD re the H1N1 vaccine composition
The following is a response from MDPH’s Dr. Al DeMaria in regard to questions concerning Whether the H1N1 vaccine might pose any danger from thimerosol or from a chemical called… Read more »
Don’t abandon ‘public option’ without benefits in return
A GOVERNMENT-RUN health insurance option serves two essential goals of health care reform. It provides needed competition in places where a single private insurer dominates the market, and its national… Read more »
Aug 23 2009 Wash Post Swine Flu Campaign Waits on Vaccine: Only Third of Supply Is Expected for First Round of Vast Effort
By Rob SteinWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, August 23, 2009 Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope… Read more »
How Swine Flu Vaccine Works
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