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Two high-profile Mass. hospitals to improve accessibility
Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital have agreed to spend millions of dollars to address charges that their facilities and staff were unfriendly to the disabled.... Read more...
Academic medical associations offer conflict-of-interest proposal
In the wake of several recent scandals over academics who failed to disclose industry relationships, two key academic medical associations have come together to offer suggestions on how to regulate... Read more...
Partners HealthCare chairman accused of conflict of interest
The chairman of Partners HealthCare, New England's largest healthcare organization, has been accused of conflicts of interest, not so surprising in corporate life, but still noteworthy given the... Read more...
Case study: Mass General works to lower elder care costs
Since 2006, Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital has been engaged in efforts to cut costs by minimizing the number of hospital stays and emergency department visits needed by frail elderly... Read more...
Boston hospitals cut medication errors
By integrating their computer systems and improving their processes, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston were able to cut down on medication errors during the... Read more...
Mass General suspends pediatric cardiac surgery after complications
A prestigious Boston academic institution has suspended its pediatric cardiac survey program in the wake of surgical errors that were made. Massachusetts General Hospital recently saw two babies... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Economic stress leads to increase in MA shaken-baby cases
In Massachusetts, cases of shaken-baby syndrome are on the rise, influenced largely by the current state of economic stress. Last year at this time, Children's Hospital Boston and Massachusetts... Read more...
Federal prosecutors: Psychiatrist paid to tout off-label antidepressant use
Federal prosecutors have unveiled a case against pharmaceutical company Forest Laboratories, charging that the company illegally marketed antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro for use in children. In a... Read more...
Massachusetts General questioned on infectious disease reporting delay
Officials at Massachusetts General Hospital have come under fire for a four-day delay in letting area health authorities know that a gastrointestinal illness was hitting a broad swath of patients and... Read more...
Group wants Boston's non-profit hospitals to pay more to coffers
While Boston's eight biggest teaching hospitals own $2.4 billion in property, they paid just $4 million in voluntary payments to the city's coffers in 2007. That's simply not right, particularly... Read more...
