Today's Globe: Cape hospital chief, Katrina trailer children, antidepressants after stroke, PTSD jump, ADHD at work, Express Scripts settlement, Erwin Hirsch
Cape Cod Healthcare Inc. yesterday chose Dr. Richard F. Salluzzo (left), a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and the Tufts School of Medicine, to become its chief executive as the organization faces a shortfall of revenue in addition to layoffs and cutbacks.
Tens of thousands of youngsters may face lifelong health problems because the temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency contained formaldehyde fumes up to five times the safe level.
Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests.
The number of troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007, the most violent year in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon records show.
Employees suffering from attention deficit and hyperactivity do a month less work a year than staff without the condition, according to a World Health Organization survey.
Express Scripts Inc. yesterday said it will pay $9.5 million in an agreement with 28 states that alleged the pharmacy benefits manager misled consumers when it encouraged doctors to switch patients' cholesterol drug brands under the guise of controlling costs.
Drawing lessons from a life that spanned three continents and vast changes in medicine, Dr. Erwin Hirsch (left) spent more than three decades turning Boston City Hospital and its successor, Boston Medical Center, into the city's premier trauma center, all the while training physicians who used the knowledge he shared in careers throughout the country. Dr. Hirsch was 72 when he drowned Friday in a boating accident in Rockport, Maine.
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