The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday. Procter & Gamble spokesman Paul Fox said the Cincinnati-based company plans to create a new lid on tubs of Tide Pods ‘‘in the next couple of weeks.’’ The company continues to study the design of the package, Fox said. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
It will cost South Shore Hospital in Weymouth $750,000 to settle charges related to a 2010 data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 800,000 people. (Boston Globe, 5/25/12)
Unionized nurses at Boston Medical Center are protesting a new round of job cuts, following a hospital decision to shut down an acute-injury rehabilitation unit on July 1. (Boston Globe, 5/25/12)
Since arriving in Boston from rural North Carolina in early May, the new president of financially struggling Carney Hospital in Dorchester — owned by for-profit Steward Health Care System — has had a consistent message for staffers, patients, and community residents. (Boston Globe, 5/25/12)
Taking a nearly $110 million write-off on an electronic health record system it will scrap, Partners HealthCare System Inc. reported Thursday that its second-quarter operating income dropped to $5.3 million from $71.2 million in the same period last year. (Boston Globe, 5/25/12)