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...number of serious errors in prescribing drugs, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health reported in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. During the last six months of 1993, the Harvard researchers reported, 334 drug errors were made at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's, 39 percent as serious as ordering a drug to which a patient was allergic or prescribing the wrong dosage. Other mistakes were made by nurses or as a result of secretarial errors in transcribing a doctor's orders. While the researchers said that most errors were caught...
...MATEP plant, which has 105 employees and runs 24 hours a day, supplies 95 percent of the electricity for the Medical School, the School of Public Health, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and four of Harvard's teaching hospitals--Beth Israel, Children's the Deaconess and Brigham & Women...
...building was designed to look likeneighboring hospitals and office towers, soadministrative offices with windows are at thefront, and there is a brick exterior at groundlevel. Some people actually wander inside theplant thinking it is Brigham & Women's Hospital,which is across the Street, MATEP officials says...
...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
Fire Capt. Robert Calobrisi was knocked unconscious while helping to rescue tenants. He was in serious condition Saturday at Brigham & Women's Hospital...