http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/ en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:39 -0500 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:05:35 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Alcohol advertising inside MBTA subway cars reaches thousands of Boston Public School students every school day, a new study from Boston University reports, exposing young people to the kind of messages that research links to increased underage drinking. A team... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/alcohol_adverti.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/alcohol_adverti.html Boston University Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:39 -0500 Children’s Hospital Boston has agreed to limit increases in fees it charges the state’s major health insurers next year as part of a larger push to control the rise in pediatric health care costs. At last count, about 30 students... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_ch_14.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_ch_14.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:04:04 -0500 Just over half of the life scientists doing research at American universities have some kind of relationship with pharmaceutical or biotech companies, Boston researchers report. But the proportion of researchers whose work was funded directly by industry appears to be... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/just_over_half.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/just_over_half.html Mass General Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:48:20 -0500 Harvard Medical School's publishing arm has a new iPhone application for all things swine flu, pulling information from local and national health specialists, its own medical and business schools, and an outbreak locator, all downloadable from the iTunes Store. Called... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/harvard_medical_5.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/harvard_medical_5.html Harvard University Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:51:54 -0500 Elizabeth Sheehan has spent a long time working among the world’s poorest people. Now she has an ambitious but simple plan to help the worst off. State health officials have fined Rhode Island Hospital $150,000 and ordered it to install... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_gl_1.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_gl_1.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:40:25 -0500 State public health specialists are warning consumers that ground beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria may have been sold by four Massachusetts supermarkets, in a second, unrelated outbreak affecting the state in a week. Shaws, Price Chopper, Trader Joe’s, and... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/warning_on_tain.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/warning_on_tain.html Public Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:06:20 -0500 Budget cuts to public health programs in Massachusetts were not nearly as deep as some advocates had feared, but prevention programs will still suffer, a statewide group says. Last month the Massachusetts Public Health Association warned that the state Department... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/budget_cuts_to.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/budget_cuts_to.html Public Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:41:38 -0500 Brigham and Women's Hospital has begun a clinical collaboration with Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket. Under an agreement announced last week, the affiliation will focus on cardiology and emergency medicine. Heart specialists from the Brigham will consult with... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/brigham_and_wom_2.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/brigham_and_wom_2.html Brigham Womens Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:02:00 -0500 In the Sunday Globe: Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care overhaul law provided the model for the national legislation now under construction in Congress. Now state officials are working to make sure the federal proposals don’t undermine the state’s pioneering system... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/in_case_you_mis_124.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/in_case_you_mis_124.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:20:09 -0500 In G Health: Climbing levels in games like World of Warcraft can be habit-forming and disruptive for both adolescents and adults. Other online activities, from visiting porn sites to incessantly checking e-mail, can also interfere with work, school, and relationships.... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_health_a_29.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_health_a_29.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:33 -0500 Independent health advisers will begin monitoring safety of the swine flu vaccine today, an extra step the government promised in this year’s unprecedented program to watch for possible side effects. An international group of scientists has decoded the DNA of... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_sw_16.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/11/todays_globe_sw_16.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:45:57 -0500 By Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent A drug commonly prescribed to treat anemia in patients with both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease worked no better than placebo in reducing deaths or cardiovascular problems it was thought to prevent, according to... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/by_elizabeth_co_3.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/by_elizabeth_co_3.html Brigham Womens Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:40:00 -0500 By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Massachusetts patients stricken with the chills, coughs, and fever that are the calling card of influenza are streaming into physician offices at a higher rate than any time during the past two flu seasons, state... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/flu_visits_to_d.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/flu_visits_to_d.html Public Health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:40:42 -0500 The Boston-based law firm Ropes & Gray made arrangements this month for hundreds of its employees and their families to obtain the antiviral medicine Tamiflu to protect them from swine flu, a move that the company calls a wise precaution... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/todays_globe_ta_5.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/todays_globe_ta_5.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:45:17 -0500 More than half of the mental health professionals who work with children in Massachusetts plan to leave the state or the field in the next five years, according to a workforce capacity report released today. The report, commissioned by the... http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/child_mental_he.html http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/child_mental_he.html Mental Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:12:01 -0500