Today's Globe: Evercare review, salmonella, texting
The state Division of Insurance is investigating sales of Evercare private Medicare plans that have sparked complaints from Massachusetts seniors about sales representatives using misleading and abusive marketing.
The outbreak of salmonella poisoning that made more than 1,300 people ill across the country and cost American tomato growers more than $300 million has been traced to peppers grown on a farm in Mexico, federal officials said yesterday.
In an alert issued this week, the American College of Emergency Physicians warns of serious accidents involving oblivious texters, citing rising reports from doctors around the country of injuries involving text-messaging pedestrians, bicyclists, Rollerbladers, even motorists.
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Elizabeth Cooney is a former
health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a
business reporter and an editor. 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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