By Renee Loth | November 13, 2009 WELCOME TO Washington, where 60 is the new 51.As important legislation from health care to climate change moves through Congress, the conventional wisdom… Read more »
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Calling the filibuster bluff
Connect students to health care
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE students are not allowed to get health coverage through the state Connector Authority’s program of subsidized Commonwealth Care. So private, for-profit health insurance companies are making a killing… Read more »
House passes sweeping health bill
By Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | November 8, 2009 WASHINGTON – House Democrats, overcoming nearly united Republican opposition and dozens of defections within their own ranks, narrowly… Read more »
As Nurses Hold Candlelight Vigil Federal Mediator is Called in
UMMMC Has Profit of $31 Million but Claims the Need for Concessions While UMass Memorial Medical Center has shown a profit of over $31 million in the first three quarters… Read more »
The Caymans hospital investment accounts took a hit in ’08
U.S. hospitals see profits dive, AHA reports By
Nov. 12 09 CNN – How to avoid falling victim to a hospital mistake
How to avoid falling victim to a hospital mistake When Kerry Higuera started bleeding three months into her pregnancy, she feared she was miscarrying. Heading to the emergency room seemed… Read more »
To get CDC Estimates On H1N1 Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths
Dear Pandemic Information Group: See the link below for CDC estimates, from April to October 17, 2009, for the number of H1N1 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. CDC will now be using… Read more »
MNA Membership Votes In Favor of Dues Proposal to Support Affiliation with National Nurses United — the New “RN Super Union”
From MA DPH Order Pursuant to M.G.L. c.111, s.5A Regarding Prescribing and Dispensing Tamiflu for Oral Suspension
BU student caught bacterial infection from lab, tests show
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | November 10, 2009 Sophisticated genetic fingerprinting confirmed that a laboratory experiment was the source of a bacterial infection that sickened a graduate student on… Read more »
