MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]
Crowd Sourcing Solutions to COVID19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590 The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of patients and safety … [Read more...]
Cutting Lead Exposure Even More Beneficial to MA Kids Than We Thought
As fears of childhood lead poisoning swept Boston in the 1980s, The Green Miles distinctly remembers being dragged to the doctor by The Green Mom to have his blood tested for lead poisoning, despite my protestations that no kid so wicked … [Read more...]
The Year’s Most Predictable “Bombshell”: Accountable Care Organizations Won’t Work
WBUR's online health care blog, "CommonHealth," has a flashy headline article today titled Massachusetts Attorney General Drops Health Reform Bombshell. What's the bombshell? That the state's proposal to control health care costs by … [Read more...]
Federal House Republican Budget: Disaster For America. Worse For Massachusetts
Massachusetts would be disproportionately impacted by the Medicare cuts. As a relatively high-cost state, and with a major concentration of academic medical institutions that get extra Medicare reimbursements to allow them to teach the next … [Read more...]
Connecting the Dots: GIC, Blue Cross, and the big picture
My town has been trying to negotiate the GIC for the past two years. At one time every union but one had signed on to the idea, but that was not good enough under the law. The result of this stalemate is that we have sent about $4 million … [Read more...]
CigRX Side Effects
This product is a lozenge that is mint flavored. You let the lozenge dissolve in your mouth when you would normally have the desire to smoke and it reduces the desire to smoke on a temporary level. Before using any product you should check … [Read more...]
The Institute For Health and Recovery Calls on Yes on 1 Campaign To Pull Offensive Ads
The Institute for Health and Recovery (IHR) called on the Yes on Question One campaign today to pull its "offensive and irresponsible" ads that feature a liquor store customer being slapped in the face, due to the demonstrated link between … [Read more...]
Ford Hall Forum: “AIDS, Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation” (9/30/10)
This event is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House, a museum and National Historic Landmark dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, as part of the Partners in Dialogue series. … [Read more...]
We failed the people who cleaned up 9/11. Will we fail the people cleaning up the Gulf?
In the aftermath of 9/11, we saw thousands of workers develop devastating respiratory conditions and other illnesses as a result of exposure to toxic dust that filled the air in the days and weeks after the twin towers fell. To this day, … [Read more...]
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