Today's Globe: stuck kids, Blue Cross and Google, seeking stem cell therapy, life-sciences bill
Parents and advocates report that in recent weeks across the state, at least a dozen children and teens in crisis - threatening violence to themselves or others - have waited three, five, even seven days in hospital emergency rooms or medical wards for psychiatric beds.
Come this fall, members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts will be able to go online to look up their healthcare claims and some medical records through Google Health, which the insurer says will help patients manage their medical care and have more productive discussions with doctors.
In a growing - and potentially dangerous - trend that has seen Americans traveling abroad for experimental stem cell treatments not allowed in the United States.
The Senate passed a bill authorizing $1 billion in tax breaks and spending on life-sciences programs just in time for Governor Deval Patrick's trip to San Diego next week for a major international biotechnology convention.
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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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