Today's Globe: veterans' brain-injury care, measles, MRSA, Lyme disease, genetic-test bill
Many Iraq war veterans with traumatic brain injury are not getting adequate healthcare and job assistance for their long-term recovery despite years of government pledges to do so, Veterans Affairs Department investigators say.
Measles outbreaks in several states have led to more than 70 cases so far this year, the worst in six years, health officials said yesterday (second item).
Two students in the Fitchburg school system have been diagnosed with infections from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the school superintendent said (fifth item).
A medical group criticized for its guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme disease will reassess its findings, after an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general (sixth item).
The US House of Representatives gave final approval to legislation barring companies and health insurers from using results of genetic tests to deny people jobs or coverage, sending the measure to President Bush.
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in
her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and
worked for Boston magazine.Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
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