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...hospital in New England and the third oldest general hospital in the U.S., broke ground last September on a $144 million outpatient care facility in Danvers. While the new regulations should not affect the Children’s Hospital’s proposed expansion plans in the North Shore, spokeswoman Michelle Davis wrote in an e-mail that the legislation would certainly affect “future but yet to be determined plans.” “Our biggest concern is making sure that [state] resources are available for a timely review of projects,” Davis...
...spokeswoman from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said that the trends seen so far are expected to continue...
...intentional? To cut costs. Heparin suppliers substituted a chemical--oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, or OSCS--that is derived from animal cartilage and used only in dietary supplements, not in medicines. The compound's key advantages: it is, as a Baxter spokeswoman puts it, a "virtual mimic of heparin" in most tests and, according to a congressional investigator, costs only $20 per kg, vs. $2,000 for crude heparin. The suppliers, investigators believe, colluded to substitute OSCS in the crude heparin they passed along for the standard price and pocketed the $1,980 difference for each kilogram they sold...
...around New York City. Some reports said the fake-out was nationwide, but the video was shot all in New York, and accounts of the stunt seemed limited to the actual home of the Times. And how does the New York Times feel about being parodied and satirized? A spokeswoman told an (actual) Times blogger, "We are in the process of finding out more about...
...earthquakes, most people do exactly the wrong thing. "Unfortunately, adults fail miserably when it comes to quake-safe actions," says Inés Pearce, a spokeswoman for the Earthquake Country Alliance, the umbrella group for all the organizers. They run outside or inside. Or they run to a doorway, which is no longer considered wise. Most injuries occur when people try to move during the shaking. It is much safer to drop, cover and hold on close to wherever you happen to be standing. Children actually are much better at this - because they have regular drills in school...