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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 05/15/2012
• 09:00

  How much would #Massachusetts save under #single-payer health coverage? #mapoli

   »  Boston Health News
  Give Mass Care and other single-payer advocates credit; They don’t give up.  And, they don’t do robo calls. We got a message from a real person yesterday asking us to call our senator and ask him or her to vote for this amendment. It asks the state to estimate how much it would save under [...]
  
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• 08:29

  Boston Globe: How to pick a #nursing home in Boston — and what to avoid #long term care

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  The Boston Globe’s been tracking the innapproiate use of use of antipsychotics in nursing homes. More from this vidoe and, in today’s health section, help on picking a home. Add this to the list: Don’t pick the home by the rug. The homes that look like B&Bs don’t always provide the best care. [c.brightcove.com] Filed [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 05/14/2012
• 14:47

  Globes “Be Well, Boston”

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• 14:45

  Globe “Be Well, Boston” videos

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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 05/13/2012
• 12:57

  FDA says – Ask yourself, your doc: Should I take drugs for #osteopenia, #osteoporosis or bone loss?

   »  Boston Health News
  Twelve years ago, a Boston Globe story raised doubts some Canadian researcher had about bone scans for the diagnosis of osteoporosis. It was a scary story to write.  Doctors, some patient advocacy groups, researchers and drug makers were enthusiastic about the new-found ability to measure bone density and the development of bisphosphonates like Fosamax to treat it.  Osteoporosis was under-treated, they said. [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 05/11/2012
• 09:10

  Mandatory overtime, lack of experience linked to #nursinghome worker injuries #longtermcare

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  Frank W. Porell, Professor of gerontology, at UMass Boston contributed to this study of injuries to nursing home aides.  It might be interesting to see what kind of sick time or insurance these employees have. This from Medscape: May 9, 2012 — Nursing home aides who work less mandatory overtime and receive better training were less likely to [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 05/04/2012
• 16:20

  What are #Harvard docs and #medical school students reading? Countway tweets tell all #library

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  The Countway Library at Harvard Medical School has a twitter account listing the books Harvard students, docs and profs return. Here are a few samples.  “Cooper:Therapy dog” seems popular, as do books by Paul Farmer of Partners in Health. For more see @HMSreturns. History, memoir and colons Medieval technology and social change by  Lynn Townsend White [bit.ly] Alfalfa [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 04/30/2012
• 17:07

  New York Times profiles Harvard cognitive psych prof Elizabeth Spelke

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  The Times’ “Profiles in Science” feature seems to favor Harvard types. Today’s offers a video and story on cognitive psychologist Elizabethe Spelke. If you’ve had a baby in the Boston area any time in the past 15 years or so, you probably got a letter from a lab like hers asking if scientists could use your tot for research. (We [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 04/25/2012
• 12:09

  Health and medicine at the Cambridge Science Festival

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  Share Cambridge Science Festival | Home Annual spring event presented by the MIT Museum. Event descriptions; information for participants, volunteers, and media; and ticket sa… Cambridgesciencefestival Share “ Dive into the brain of HM 7:30pm @centsqtheater #cambscifest #WedLineup cambridgesciencefestival.o… Cambridge Sci Fest! Wed, Apr 25 2012 09:52:09 ReplyRetweet Wishing I could go to this Science [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 04/18/2012
• 08:37

  Globe: New approach to #malpractice takes hold #medicalerrors

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  Doctors generally don’t admit to or apologize for even the most obvious medical mistakes. For the most part, they’ve never been allowed to. Blame it on those nasty malpractice lawyers who will use it against the doc in court. Or blame it on the hospital lawyers, who need to protect the institution, even if it means not sharing the facts with patients. [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 04/13/2012
• 10:26

  #TedMed2012: #Alzheimer’s research and a”ticking time bomb” from Brandeis

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  Say what you will about TED talks, they do offer an impressive list of speakers. TEDMED is underway in DC. And while the organization’s own site features more videos about parties than talks, you can find a nice post here about what two local researchers had to say.  From Chemical and Engineering News Gregory Petsko knows why he came [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 04/06/2012
• 11:29

  Nature Boston: Defending #personal #genome sequencing #Boston #research #health

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  When the NYTimes ran a front-page story on the failure of the  individual genome to predict disease, my thoughts immediately went down the street. Knome Inc is a company near my Cambridge office that is famous for sequencing Ozzy Osbourne’s genome.  Here, I must admit — I found  that out by reading the Weekly World News — the kitschy tabloid that [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/30/2012
• 11:31

  Two April events: #Crowd-sourced #health care, #science and the lay #press

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  Your scribe here, Tinker Ready, appears at the second event on science and the media. Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution Anne Wojcicki With panel discussion by Archon Fung, Jeremy Greene, Sanford Kwinter, and Jonathan Zittrain. Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff. April 17, 2012, 5:00pm–7:00pm Emerson Hall, Room 105 Co-sponsored [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/21/2012
• 20:56

  Mass #teens and the morning after pill: More trouble getting #birth control #planb

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  Teens in Print, working with The New England Center for Investigative Reporting (necir-bu.org) produced a  piece inconsistancies in access to the morning after pill. Worried that she might be at risk of being pregnant, a fifteen-year-old Boston Latin Academy student said she called her local Walgreens in Hyde Park and asked how old she had to be [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/19/2012
• 09:18

  Harvard Meeting: Detecting disease digitally #health #map #gps #ddd

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  Keynote from last week’s Digital Disease Detection conference at Harvard. Link for more video. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH Harvard Professor of Medicine, Health Care Policy, and Sociology Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He directs [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/15/2012
• 09:35

  Health Wonk Review: Wearing the Green for the St. Patrick’s Day Edition

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  Here in Boston, researchers have looked into that most pressing of St. Patrick’s Day health questions: Is Guinness really good for you? Red wine gets all the press, but Tufts researchers found a positive association between beer and bone density. For this edition of the Health Wonk Review, we take a a look at the Irish Times and [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/14/2012
• 10:12

  Overstated news promo of the week: Killer Hamburger!

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  While watching the usually solid New England Cable News last night, we took note of the promos for the Harvard School of Public Health study on the correlation between red meat consumption: “A serious new warning about the possible dangers of red meat.” The report itself is a little more understated, but still…Walter Willett had [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/11/2012
• 20:42

  Talk on “The Future of National Health Reform” Monday night @ East Boston Library

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  The Future of National Health Reform” – John McDonough When Monday, March 12, 2012, 6 – 7pm Where Boston Public Library, East Boston Branch 276 Meridian Street East Boston, MA 02128 Event type Harvard 375 Events Organization/Sponsor Harvard University and Boston Public Library Ticket Info Free 375 Celebration Event Type Campus Email community@harvard.edu Phone 617-495-4955 [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/08/2012
• 11:08

  Labels don’t list questionable ingredients in conventional and alternative soaps, diapers and make-up

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  Nature Boston took a walk down the aisle of Whole Foods and  Rite Aid with Ruth Rudell to talk about the new study from Silent Spring Institute From the press release: Investigators tested products for the presence of hormone disruptors that raise concerns for breast cancer, growth, and reproduction, as well as chemicals associated with asthma. They [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/06/2012
• 15:32

  Globe: Partners docs rewarded for taking on new, complex patients

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  Liz Kolawczyk does a good job talking to a lot of docs for this story: The Harvard-affiliated hospitals are tying about 10 percent of doctors’ salaries this year to the size of their practice and the complexity of their patients’ illnesses.That means the hospitals’ 360 employed primary-care physicians can increase their pay, now roughly $200,000 [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/04/2012
• 19:15

  Never going to a Boston Emergency Department again #ED

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  Between an elderly father and a bum gall bladder, I got to know the Boston ED’s pretty well a few years back. The wait was at least an hour or two, usually much longer. So, I note that the Cambridge Health Alliance has taken to posting wait times. Of one minute. Granted, if it’s something they can’t [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 03/02/2012
• 12:47

  Video from Harvard forum on #Alzheimers #dementia

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  Also check out the science week in review over at Nature Boston and this week’s Health Wonk Review, a digest of health policy posts. Alzheimer’s: What Is the Value of Knowing Early: A View Across Five Countries Filed under: Health care news
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/27/2012
• 00:00

  Monday night: Contested Illnesses and the Future of the #Environmental #Health Movement

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  At Northeastern: Contested Illnesses and the Future of the Environmental Health Movement   Dr. Phil Brown Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies; Director of the Community Engagement Core of the Superfund Research Program at Brown University Monday, February 27th | 5:30-7:15 pm 10 Behrakis | 30 Leon Street Northeastern University RSVP Phil Brown is the [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/23/2012
• 10:01

  BU on Jewish doctors and the Holocaust

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  The new issue of BU’s Bostonia has a piece on research into the jewish medical workers during the Holocaust: Among the Jews who survived the Nazi horror of Auschwitz was Gisella Perl, a gynecologist born in Transylvania in 1905. In interviews and in an unsparing memoir, Perl described her efforts to care for her fellow [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/19/2012
• 10:41

  How can college students help improve health delivery in Boston’s inner city? #BU #BC #NU #tufts

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  A lot of my students at local universities belong to organizations that do fundraisers. Often, it feels like little thought goes into these projects. The event feel like excuses for parties and resume entries. Which is fine. But if they really want to do some good, they might consider this program, HeathLeads. I requires more than a [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/13/2012
• 10:26

  How to understand “Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care”

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  Share Brandeis University's Stuart Altman traces efforts to reshape health … 21 hours ago … Stuart Altman, professor of national health policy at Brandeis University, … Access the full articles and quality re… Boston Share The Heller School Faculty and Researchers | Stuart Altman Search Expertise. Faculty and Researcher Guide. Stuart Altman … Brandeis More [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/08/2012
• 11:26

  Nature Boston: Who in town is getting funded to do biomedical? #research #NIH

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  Nature Boston takes a trip through the NIH grants database and finds that the number of new grants dropped quite a bit last year. While the agency funded 403 new projects in Massachusetts in 2010, that number dropped to 335 in 2011. Does that make the grant winners super superstars? Or was the research in the [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 02/02/2012
• 10:57

  Is the #nurse #shortage real? That and more from the #Health Wonk Review

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  Boston’s Dave William question the validity of the nurse shortage in the new edition of issue of the Health Wonk Review: David Williams is running on the idea that the much-hyped nursing shortage might be exaggerated.  We’ve all heard that there is a shortage of nurses all across the country that is predicted to grow rapidly over [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/30/2012
• 09:46

  Boston, Downton and spinal injuries in World War I

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  …or, an excuse to write about “Downton Abbey.” If you didn’t watch last night, know that we give away a major development, aka spoiler alert. After dismissing it as just another period drama, we admit, we’ve been sucked into BBC WWI-era soap opera. Wondering about whether Matthew Crawley could recover from this battle wounds, we went [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/23/2012
• 09:27

  The question of headlines on all Wall Street Journal #health debates #boston

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  Do we need to wonder why we saw a string of WSJ tweets come in this morning as questions? Didn’t our search engine optimizers tell us to do the same thing? Wouldn’t have be kind of annoying? Are there any Boston doctors in the long list of posts debating the “Big Issues“? Should we link to them? [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/22/2012
• 09:00

  Books by doctors on health reform and beyond

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  As a freelancer, I’ve been known to grumble about doctors who write. After all, why should they hog the Pulitzers and the pages of The New Yorker when they have perfectly good day jobs? On the other hand, doctors in print often offer us an alternative to the mass-marketed Dr. Oz or the perky, laminated [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/20/2012
• 11:05

  Hold the fried chicken: #RedSox workout tips from the Globe #fitness #health #boston

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  Some of the BoSox players were lifting chicken legs instead of weights last spring, but not Ellsbury and Pedroia.  Jacoby returned from an injury for a great year and Dustin was solid all season. The Globe’s Daily Dose offers some advice from their off-season trainers, who counsel them “on the importance of sleep, self-massage to relieve soreness, and what [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/17/2012
• 11:44

  New fitness and exercise blog on the Globe web site

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  The Globe has added another health blog — this one on fitness: Elizabeth Comeau is the senior health & wellness producer at Boston.com. She will be blogging about her personal fitness journey and using a device called a FitBit to track her weekly goals and progress (see below). Follow her journey and share your own. Read [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/10/2012
• 11:16

  Will competition in Hep C drug market bring down costs? #hepatitis

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  Lots of health news emerges from investor events like this week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The Globe’s Robert Weisman reports this morning on competition for Cambridge-based (soon to be Boston-based) Vertex Pharmaceuticals. SAN FRANCISCO – It was supposed to be a victory lap for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. executives: their first appearance at the life sciences industry’s most [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/07/2012
• 14:00

  MIT science news tracker accuses NY Times of “trashing” yoga #altmed #yoga

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  More discontent about reporting on alternative approaches to wellness. Paul Raeburn – who discloses that he’s been practicing yoga for a dcade — writes: The magazine excerpt notes, in the setup near the top, that “Among devotees, from gurus to acolytes forever carrying their rolled-up mats, yoga is described as a nearly miraculous agent of renewal [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/06/2012
• 09:38

  New Yorker: Former NEJM editor dismisses placebo claims

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  Arnold Relman writes in this week’s New Yorker.  He argues that researchers claiming placebos can cure are driven by ”substantial financial support for their anti-establishment views”  from NIH and private donors. From the letter’s page: There is simply no evidence that physical diseases, such as cancer,  atherosclerosis, or organ disorders, can be cured or measurably improved by  placebos. Experienced [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/03/2012
• 11:53

  There’s a volcano in my coffee! Plugging the MOS Pompeii exhibit

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  The Museum of Science offers this fun video to plug its Pompeii exhibit. Filed under: Health care news
  
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• 09:44

  Harvard video: The Supercommittee Collapse and America’s Healthcare Future

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  Harvard School of Public Health Panel Filed under: Health care news, Reform Tagged: access to health insurance, Health care costs, Reform, The politics of health care
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 01/02/2012
• 10:04

  NYTimes starts its TBI / PTSD series in Maine

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  DEXTER, Me. — The roadside bomb that separated Sgt. Matthew Pennington from his left leg in 2006 also shattered his right leg and scorched his lungs. Those injuries he understood. But then came the ones he did not, the ones inside his head… Like Mr. Pennington, many veterans injured in combat are finding that their [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/30/2011
• 19:31

  The best of Nature Boston 2011

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  MIT turns 150 Boston Blog: Smoots, smashed pianos and more: MIT 150 exhibit opens NNB was among the press invited to the preview of the MIT 150 exhibit. The website went live today and the exhibit is open to the public… Nature Boston Blog: Nukes, radar, Click and Clack: The Globe offers an MIT top [...]
  
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• 19:29

  The best of Nature Boston 2011

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  MIT turns 150 Boston Blog: Smoots, smashed pianos and more: MIT 150 exhibit opens NNB was among the press invited to the preview of the MIT 150 exhibit. The website went live today and the exhibit is open to the public… Nature Boston Blog: Nukes, radar, Click and Clack: The Globe offers an MIT top [...]
  
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• 09:59

  BWH: Cops and apnea

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  From JAMA and the Brgham Filed under: Health care news
  
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• 05:08

  Rounding up the year’s health news

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  Theirs and ours: You can read Commonhealth’s list or listen to it on Radio Boston: Or listen to Carey Goldberg on WBUR MassDevice offers : The top medical device stories of the year, Part I From sweeping regulatory changes promised, but never delivered, by the FDA, to the industry and regulatory backlash against the impending 2.3% [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/29/2011
• 09:05

  The Globe on alarm fatigue, HIT and a hit to the hospital association

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  From The Globe: Wide heart monitor use tied to missed alarms/ State reports detail 11 patient deaths linked to alarm fatigue in Massachusetts Steward Health Care chain quits Mass. hospital group: For-profit chain says it can better advocate for its unique interests Report suggests HIT, incubators as part of economic development plan. Filed under: Boston hospitals, [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/22/2011
• 09:42

  Boston hospital CIO Halamka on his wife’s diagnosis: “We have cancer”

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  Beth Israel CIO John Halamka usually blogs about health information with posts like “The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup,” and very occasionally, his life as a vegan or his plan to  retire to a small family farm to raise organic vegetables. Today he reports the disturbing news of his wife’s breast cancer. They’ve decided to document her treatment in real [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/19/2011
• 09:49

  New look and new name for Nature Boston #Natnet #science #Boston

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  So, the renamed Nature Boston is up and running. Check out this week’s calendar of event and a “Storify” post on last weeks visits by science journalist Carl Zimmer   He  was t the Coolidge Corner Theatre on talking about viruses at a screening of the film 12 Monkeys. He also spoke at Harvard about his  book on science tattoos. Also [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/15/2011
• 14:18

  Burying medical mistakes: A Pro Publica/Frontline investigation

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  This story notes that “when patients were autopsied, major errors related to the principle diagnosis or underlying cause of death were found in one of four cases. In one of 10 cases, the error appeared severe enough to have led to the patient’s death.” So, it is bad news that all of the New England states [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/11/2011
• 22:53

  Not much new in review of #breast #cancer and the #environment

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  Earlier this week, we cast this IOM study as offering little new news.  But, as Julia Brody of  The Silent Spring Institute points out, that’s not quite true.  From the environmental Health News website: …(M)ost of the news media missed the significance of the assessment on environmental chemicals. The real news is that the report is an [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/06/2011
• 19:13

  Hounded ex-Medicare chief Berwick back in Boston

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  Donald Berwick, who was hounded out of Washington for saying something nice about the UK health system, is back in town and on WBUR today. Also check out today’s NTYimes op/ed by Joe Nocera: Dr. Donald Berwick was already in Massachusetts when I spoke to him Sunday afternoon. He was back in the Newton home where he’d lived for 30 years, being [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 12/04/2011
• 22:48

  #Harvard med students get YouTubey for a cause #video

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  You Tube is overflowing with video parodies featuring people in lab coast and scrubs. Some are better than others. Here is the latest from the Jubilee Project, which aims to produces videos for good causes. “Our vision is to make entertaining videos that will empower, enable, and inspire others to do good as well.” One [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/30/2011
• 10:11

  Many #Boston docs help red flag crappy, overhyped, innaccurate #health reporting #journalism

   »  Boston Health News
  Reporting on health can be difficult. Copy editors plop “breathrough” into headlines. Green reporters don’t know the difference between a randomized clinical trial and an epi study.  And, editors wants something sexy to take to the morning meeting. So, we should have little mercy on gutted newsrooms of the nation. Then, we should call them out. Despite the above, it is not that hard to get [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/27/2011
• 10:12

  Globe editorial: Expand overdose prevention program to save lives #narcan #heroin #masschusetts

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  Enclosure: [download]

  Today’s lead staff editorial  in the Globe endorses the state’s pilot overdose prevention program: FEW DEATHS from heroin overdose happen alone. A friend or relative is often standing by helplessly as a victim’s skin turns blue, their pulse slows, and breathing stops. In 2008, 594 people died from accidental overdoses of heroin and other opioid [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/21/2011
• 08:19

  NYTimes: #BU prof write letter to editor, gets to respond to critics #HCR #singlepayer

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  The digital tsunami is changing how we write letters to the editor. Stephen M. Davidson,   Boston University School of Management prof  and the author of “Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System.” writes: The new law may not be ideal, but it is a rational attempt to achieve important goals. It will not only reduce the [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/17/2011
• 21:41

  #Tufts plays Twitter hardball w/ #BCBS

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  Apparently , Blue Cross Blue Sheild of Mass and Tufts Medical Center are back at the table trying to negotiate a deal. But, for three days, Tufts has been bashing the insurer on Twitter — 25 posts last we counted. BCBS doesn’t seem to have a Twitter precense, so it’s been a one-sided rant. And [...]
  
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• 11:40

  Flyer from Saturday’s Occupy Boston health march

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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/14/2011
• 15:08

  Globe, WBUR on #Alzheimer’s disease

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  Both The Globe and WBUR have had recent series on Alzheimer’s disease. On Sunday, the Globe ran the last of a four-part, year-long series on a family coping losing their patriarch to early stage Alzheimer’s. Bruce Vincent sits at a table in a stark room at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Charlestown research center, just a few [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/11/2011
• 09:35

  Another reason to root for the BoSox: Help for returning soldiers #TBI #veterans #iraq

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  On Veteran’s Day, consider these numbers from a Rand Corporation study: More than 300,000 U.S. soldiers will return from Iraq with concussions and head injuries. That doesn’t account for civilians. So check out the Red Sox “Home Base” program, launched after players visited injured vets. To promote research, Home Base works with The Center for [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/09/2011
• 18:15

  Blog posts and tweets from Harvard #personalized #medicine conference #PMconf

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  This from the blog. Follow tweets at #PMconf. More tomorrow. Welcome to Personalized Medicine: Impacting Healthcare By Raju Kucherlapati At this morning’s opening session of the Sixth Annual Personalized Medicine Conference, I welcomed conference participants with a quote from Charles Dickens to describe the current environment in personalized medicine: “It was the best of times, [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/07/2011
• 16:59

  “Health Justice Boston” emerges from Occupy movement w/ petition

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  The group has a blog and an online petition, signed by 144 people over the past week. As Massachusetts health advocates and providers for the 99%, we stand with Occupy Boston and similar movements across the country and around the world. We are outraged at the accumulation of wealth by the few at the expense [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/03/2011
• 06:00

  Best in the biz in new book on medical errors #ptsafety #epatient

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  We’re saps for top ten lists, even though we find the gimmick annoying. But, we are big fans of Joe and Terry Graedon. We’ve been following both the print and radio versions of “The People’s Pharmacy” since our days in the NC’s Research Triangle. They offer solid advice about meds and also know the difference [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 11/02/2011
• 08:51

  Burying the lead on the #drinking/#breast cancer story

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  Nature Network Boston faced a dilemma two weeks back when Harvard researcher Walter Willet mentioned the findings of a then unpublished study during a talk on nutrition. He made the point that alcohol – it doesn’t have to be red wine — lowers the risk of heart disease. So, go for the scotch – unless [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/31/2011
• 10:19

  Health and science events this week in Boston

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  Check out WBUR’s story on medical homes. Then, check out this week’s health and science events on the Nature Network Calendar   Filed under: Health care news
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/28/2011
• 10:45

  Mass. #single-payer advocates take on limits of state #health reform #hcr #hcr2 #massachusetts

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  Before you write off these folks, note that a recent survey of doctors by the Massachusetts Medical Society found that a growing number of doctors support the idea of a single-payer system. More than 40 percent, up from  34 percent last year. So do a lot of folks at Occupy Boston. Massachusetts Health Reform in Practice and The Future of [...]
  
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• 09:44

  Health policy digest takes on reform loopholes and clueless reporters

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  The latest edition of the roaming digest of health policy blogs; Health Wonks – the SuperHero Edition!!! The deficit battle is on and politicians are in full voice – both in Washington and out on the hustings, where GOP candidates are loudly denouncing health reform as unAmerican and a job killer.  Hipsters and greying hippies [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/23/2011
• 20:51

  Occupy Health Care: Boston protesters say Wall Street makes them sick

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  While health reform may not be at the top of their agenda, some of the Occupy Boston protesters down at Dewey Square had no problem linking the high cost of medical care to their complaints about Wall Street.  Some support Obama’s reforms; others called for a single payer system. But, nearly everyone interviewed had universal health [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/20/2011
• 16:18

  Tweets from Boston meeting on health, the Internet and mobile communication

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  Check out #chs11 f for tweet from the Connected Health Symposium in Boston. Each year, Partners sponsors this meeting to look at how the Internet and mobile communication are changing the health care system.  Here’s a link to the Tweetstream and a few samples below from a session on social networking and health. “ RT [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/19/2011
• 15:00

  “Most-cited” #nutrition researcher on ‘taters, #breastcancer and the unknowns of dairy #weightloss

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  @ NatNetBoston: Last night, Harvard’s Walter Willett — who, according to his introduction is the most cited nutrition scientist in the world — spoke to a small group gathered in a Harvard Yard’s Emerson Hall. While he spoke, he spilled the beans - extremely health substitute for red meat, by the way – on his [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/17/2011
• 08:03

  #Boston Globe editorial: #Prostate screening limits “too sweeping” #cancer

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  A staff editorial in today’s Globe echoes comment made by prominent docs in town: The US Preventative Services Task Force went too far in calling for limits on prostate screening. A better course would be for physicians to talk with their patients about both the uncertainties inherent in the PSA test and the relative innocuousness of [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/13/2011
• 15:35

  #Designing spaces with #health outcomes in mind #Boston #chs11

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  The annual Connected Health meeting is coming up.  More on that in coming posts. Here we link to one of the groups that will be presenting as part of a panel called “Start Up: Four Entrepreneurs under the Age of 40 Discuss Their Ventures in Consumer Health IT.” Mass Design Group: MASS creates well-built environments using [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/11/2011
• 12:39

  #Massachusetts General Hosp. oncologist defends #prostate #cancer test #psa #screening #health

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  The limits of cancer screening continue to emerge. In addition to the USPSTF rejection of PSA tests for prostate cancer, the NYTimes offered a story  this weekend with the headline — Can cancer ever be ignored?   Today, the paper features a blog post  with the headline “The Shortfalls of Early Cancer Detection” and an editorial entitled “Questioning Prostate [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/09/2011
• 10:42

  10/8 rally in Lynn in support of Mass. payment reform

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  Health Care For All has been working hard to rally support for payment reform in Massachusetts. From the Lynn Item: LYNN – Two local organizations, the Lynn Health Task Force and Health Care for All, teamed up Thursday to take the pulse of the city and to try and pinpoint what exactly residents want in [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/08/2011
• 14:46

  Farmer’s Markets still going through the fall

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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 10/03/2011
• 09:40

  The Muppets explain health reform

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  Not really, but the new Health Wonk Review has a Muppet theme this month. It included links to the bests of the recent blog posts and a photo of two of our favorites — Statler and Waldorf. (My family includes a few hotel men and women.) Check it out at The New America Foundation website: [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/28/2011
• 12:16

  Med Society: 41% percent of Massachusetts docs support single payer

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  The Massachusetts Medical Society is out with its annual survey of doctors. It’s full of information about the ongoing shortage of primary care docs and select specialists. No surprise. What is unexpected  is the growing support among state docs for a single-payer system — 41 percent, up from 34 percent last years. Opinions of U.S. Health Care System [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/27/2011
• 17:25

  NYTimes on “Small Fixes” for global health problems

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  The entire New York Times ”Science” section is dedicated “low-cost innovations that are making a big difference”  in solving global health problems. It’s a great topic and a nice package including longer stories and sidebars on individual projects, like a biodegradable, single-use toilet called the PeePoo.  Don’t laugh. As this story and others point out, 40 percent [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/26/2011
• 10:41

  No comment from Boston for story on the business of #children’s #hosptials #hcr #pediatrics

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    Kaiser Health News and McClatchy newpapers offer a big take out on the rise of the mega-childrens hospitals. Comment from Children’s Boston: None. From their humble origins more than a century ago, many of the nation’s biggest and best known children’s hospitals today are health care juggernauts with sprawling medical centers and suburban satellites, [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/23/2011
• 18:31

  Commonhealth on new books re: reform, medical decisions #hcr #hcr2

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  WBUR’s Commonhealth offers two item linked to new books. The Q & A with Dr.Pamela Hartzband and her husband Jerome Groopman comes with the publication of  Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You. And, HSPH prof John McDonough offers these thoughts from his new book Inside National Health Reform. “The law [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/21/2011
• 09:34

  Children’s Boston: Preschool flu shots cut ER vistis

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  The study compared 2-4 year olds in Montreal to kids at Children’s in Boston Canadian Medical Journal The divergence in influenza rates among children in the US and Canadian sample populations after institution of the US policy to vaccinate children two to four years of age is evidence that the recommendation of the US Advisory [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/17/2011
• 11:16

  Essay contest: Cost awareness in medicine

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  Doc-run group seeks scribes:   COSTS OF CARE PARTNERS with HEALTH LUMINARIES for 2011 ESSAY CONTEST Costs of Care, a physician-run nonprofit based in Boston, has launched its second annual national healthcare essay contest, with the goal of expanding the public discourse on the role of doctors, nurses, and other care providers in controlling healthcare costs.  [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/16/2011
• 20:14

  #Science in the news and wonks on the web #health #boston

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  Check out this week’s Health Wonk Review, hosted by Boston’s own David Williams at the Health Business blog. The digest of blog posts offers opinion, reporting, and more on ACOs, HIT, NBC, the PPACA, ALEC, CMS and the GDP. Your typical discussion of health policy — an acronym fest Then, check out Science in the News, a great series [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/10/2011
• 12:31

  Perils of predisease: What we already knew about bone loss and osteoporosis drugs

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  Now that the FDA will require a stronger warning on bone loss drugs, we look back. From The Boston Globe Specialists differ on the value of tests for bone density By Tinker Ready Globe Correspondent 4//25/00 When Winchester gynecologist Robert Shirley does an ultrasound bone scan  of a patient’s heel, the news he delivers is [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/08/2011
• 19:28

  More drug company payments to docs in Mass and elsewhere

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  The investigative reporters over at Pro Publica are out with an update of their series on pharma payments to doctors. Since 2009 , docs in Massachusetts have earned a total of $22,135,703 in speaking fees from drug makers. Eight pharmaceutical companies, including the nation’s three largest, doled out more than $220 million last year to [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/07/2011
• 14:53

  MGH publication promises to reverse age-related memory loss and more

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  This arrived in the mail today. Sounds a tad overstated to me. One thing is clear — seems MGH has opened Harvard Health Letter-ish publishing arm, with a touch of Sham Wow marketing. Filed under: Health care news
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 09/06/2011
• 20:48

  BBJ on new #BIDMC CEO

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  Here’s the official announcement. Here’s from the Boston Business Journal Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has finally announced its new CEO, Dr. Kevin Tabb, weeks after the news became Boston health care’s worst kept secret. Tabb is currently the chief medical officer at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Stanford, Calif. He will succeed Eric Buehrens, who [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 08/31/2011
• 08:05

  Report: Heroin overdose deaths down in Massachusetts #OD11 #narcan #overdose #mapoli

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  The Globe offers an advance on a Boston substance abuse survey that reports a decline in city heroin overdose deaths from 2007 to -2008.  The state also reports a drop in the same period, after a two-year spike in overdose deaths. Click below for a 2010 radio report from Boston Health News on the program that distributes overdose prevention drugs to [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 08/30/2011
• 10:21

  Former Framingham Heart Study chief Kannel dies

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  From The Washington Post: William B. Kannel, an epidemiologist whose work for six decades on the landmark Framingham Heart Study helped revolutionize the way heart disease is treated, died Aug. 20 at a nursing center in Natick, Mass. He was 87 and had colon cancer, his daughter Patricia Hoffman said. Any patient ever told by [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 08/25/2011
• 10:40

  In Cambridge, Mass., an “unconference” on #healthcare and the web #hit #healthfoo

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  “Unconference, ” “NERD center” and “Health Foo.” Find our what all that means and more in report on last weekend’s  Cambridge, Massachusetts meeting on health care and the web. Or, as defined by the site ”a cross-discipline, immersive, informal ‘unconference’ that will take advantage of a growing interest in applying Web 2.0 and open-source thinking in health care to [...]
  
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• Massachusetts blogs (US-MA), 08/23/2011
• 11:28

  At NNB: #Misconduct, #NIH grants and scientific skin care #boston #health

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  Over at Nature Network Boston find links to: Globe writer Gareth Cook’s op/ed arguing that we’re better at discovering and dealing with scientific fraud, but need to do more. Cook’s coverage of the embryonic stem cell debate won him the 2005 Pulitzer for explanatory reporting. A post on skin care lines with local roots. Each mixes [...]
  
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