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Gates Foundation under the spotlight
One saying about international aid goes something like this – Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day; teach him how to fish and you feed him forever. Then there is another point of view – Give...
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Infection control: WBUR on MGH hand-washing rap
Sacha Pfeiffer offers a nice bit of multimedia on the silly but effective steps area hospitals are taking to get workers to wash their hands. She tagged along with the hand washing police, but failed...
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Health of Boston report, 2009
The city of Boston just released its 2009 “Health Report.” Lots of interesting factoids, such as: Boston’s Black and Latino residents experience higher levels of chronic disease, mortality, and...
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Mass. warning on BPA baby bottles and the brothers Koh
The state is urging parents to stop using BPA baby bottles. DPH is specifically advising mothers of children up to two years old to avoid the use of products that contain BPA for making or storing...
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Health Reform: Live Free or Die Edition
I went to a MV bookstore today and there was not one book on health reform in the long “Current Events” section. No wonder no one gets it. Please, hire me to write a book. On the mainland , Obama went...
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State on back-to-school flu issues
From The Boston Globe Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal...
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Hmong, Khmers and East meets West Medicine
The Times has a good story on the use of traditional healing in Western hospitals. I wrote a similar piece for The Boston Phoenix a few years back. From the Times At Mercy Medical Center in Merced,...
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H1N1 Vaccine arrives in Mass
Update 10/15 The Globe reports on a hectic scence at one clinic. Patients swarmed a flu shot clinic yesterday at a Jamaica Plain pediatric office, overwhelming medical officials providing H1N1 and...
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Book review: A coffee enema for a health writer
UMass Med School pediatrician, Darshak Sanghavi – who also writes a column for Slate –trashes a new book on junk science by a noted New Yorker health writer in tomorrow’s NY Times Book Review....
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JAMA and Dartmouth on Mammograms
Gooz News summarizes an article on the USPSTF recommendation on mammography from the evidence-based medicine group at Dartmouth. It is part of a group of commentaries on the topic in the Journal of...
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April 26: Boston health news round up
Health writers on both ends of 135 Morrissey Boulevard have been busy -- main Globe newsroom to STAT down the hall: From Stat; from the Globe business desk. Stat shared this story with the print...
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View ArticleKHN: Conspiracy theories aside, here’s what contact tracers really do
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News July 15, 2020 In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way. Contact tracing is the public health practice of...
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