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New Pilates Studio in Cambridge, MA
A new Pilates studio just opened in Cambridge, MA called FitLab Pilates. Their mission is to bring science-based exercise methodology to their clients. The studio...
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Handshake that made healthcare history
Partners HealthCare was born in 1993, but its powerhouse potential didn't fully hit home until 2000. That's when the emerging giant cut a quiet deal with Blue Cross to ratchet up insurance costs across the state. Nothing in Massachusetts healthcare has been the same since.
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In health care debate, both sides being heard
WASHINGTON - President Obama’s top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained yesterday by the Associated Press. (Boston Globe)
Cancer Screening
To screen or not to screen
Stop breast self-exams? No mammograms until 50? Even the experts are confused about the new guidelines. (By Stephen Smith, Boston Globe)
Debate continues over diagnostic scans for lung cancer
Guidelines push back age for Pap exam
Cancer screening advice raises ration fears
LATEST HEALTH NEWS
- Newton doctor spreads word about healthy cooking (Boston Globe, 11/25/09)
- For mother, baby, Thanksgiving’s time to go home (Boston Globe, 12:19 a.m.)
- Newton doctor spreads word about healthy cooking (Boston Globe, 11/25/09)
- MILFORD Hearings on contaminated Milford water begin (Boston Globe, 11/25/09)
- When flu hits, health specialists urge passing up holiday meals (Boston Globe, 12:30 a.m.)
- Cautious hope as H1N1 cases fall statewide (Boston Globe, 12:24 a.m.)
- Health pushes firms’ tax up (Boston Globe, 12:26 a.m.)
- Hope (and skepticism) as man’s 23-year coma ends (Boston Globe, 11/25/09)
- Lewis A. Lipsitz Caring for the elderly (Boston Globe, 11/25/09)
- Political Notebook Schumer says health bill will pass (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- Ill passengers add to travel industry’s woes (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)
- Man’s vegetative state wasn’t, after all (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- Lung bypass helps some H1N1 victims (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- N.H. to give swine flu shot to high-risk cases (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- Professors file health care lawsuit (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- Abiomed puts focus on cardiac pumps, not artificial hearts (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- Senators voice optimism on public option (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)
- G Force Dr. Amy N. Ship, a compassionate caregiver (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- Nonprofit stocks labs worldwide with Boston area throwaways (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)
- Sound Body To screen or not to screen (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- Baby boomers find growing acceptance of marijuana use (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- Swine flu outbreak stirs panic, political discord in Ukraine (Boston Globe, 11/21/09)
- The Maybe-Baby Dilemma (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
- Mass. hospitals make headway on patient infections (Boston Globe, 11/21/09)
- Health overhaul narrowly advances (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
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Why does eating quickly seem to lead to weight gain?
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Text reminders increase sunscreen use
Text messaging is a great way to alert someone to a changed meeting, traffic jam, or the score of a baseball game. Why not use texts for health alerts as well?
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Hospitals make headway on patient infections
Massachusetts’ largest hospitals say they have reduced the number of patients who acquire painful, costly, and sometimes deadly infections in their operating suites and intensive care units. (By Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe)
The quest to stop the brain drain
Computer products are spreading like kudzu through retirement communities and senior centers, as older Americans search for ways to stay mentally sharp. Researchers, however, have yet to determine whether these brain games, targeted to seniors and now an $80 million-a-year market, deliver what they promise.
A day in the life of a pandemic
On Thursday it was 63,500 swine flu doses, and hundreds of thousands in need. So who will get the vaccine? Inside the world of the state officials and doctors who must make that sobering choice, and of the worried people clamoring to be next in line