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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
Gazette.
Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
Scott Allen Alice Dembner Carey Goldberg Liz Kowalczyk Stephen Smith Colin Nickerson Beth Daley Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health and Science Editor, and Gideon Gil, Health and Science Editor. Short White Coat blogger Ishani Ganguli  |
« In case you missed it over the weekend: retired caregivers step in, a day at Newton-Wellesley, questions about Celebrex, help at home for mentally ill kids, DPH blasts Tufts obesity plan | Main | Advocates step up their lobbying for broad health insurance coverage » Monday, February 26, 2007Today's Globe: health aid hike, science imitating art, infant mortality, black women and breast cancer theory, erasable tattoos, drug counter-detailersGovernor Deval Patrick announced yesterday that his budget would dramatically increase public health spending next year, adding $72 million to strengthen disease prevention services and provide universal state coverage for three new immunizations for children, including a vaccine to help protect girls from the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Artisans decorated medieval Islamic buildings with incredibly complex geometric patterns. They created intricate patterns reflecting mathematics that had not been understood in the West until British physicist Roger Penrose studied them in the 1970s and 1980s. A paper published last week in Science was the first to make this connection. The battle against infant mortality has been recast: No longer is it enough to address only the medical needs of the pregnant women at greatest risk, many of whom are poor, socially isolated, and unfamiliar with the American system of healthcare. A researcher at Children's Hospital Boston says the insights he got from two letters to the editor have led him to a provocative theory about breast cancer. Black women, Dr. Michael Retsky hypothesizes, may be more likely to die from breast cancer because they are more likely to get it -- and therefore the surgical treatment -- before they reach menopause. Also in today's Health/Science section: Dr. Rox Anderson wants to help people whose tattoos are "no longer what they want to express to the world." In Business & Innovation: "Counter-detailers" help doctors wade through drug marketing. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 06:29 AM
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