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...Committee, which he chairs, and voted against an ordinance to offer protections to tenants being displaced by condominium conversion. More than any other candidate, Barrios has united a district that stretches from Allston to Saugus. The Boston Globe, the Sierra Club, more than 30 union locals, and both Democratic ward committees that represent Harvard, have all backed Barrios. He will be a splendid state senator...
...some states, hospitals are closing entire clinics and rural communities are losing their only practitioners. Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia closed its maternity ward after annual insurance premiums for its group of four hospitals swelled to $22 million, from $7 million in 2000. In Arizona one woman gave birth by the side of the road before she reached the only remaining maternity ward in an area of 6,000 sq. mi. The sole trauma center in Las Vegas closed for 10 days in July, forcing critically injured patients to be helicoptered to California or treated in ill-equipped local emergency rooms...
...computers to monitor and control prescription medication output to adding better-qualified pharmacy staff. The computers will help cut back on mistakes considerably, Kirking says, but the hospitals are still tied to imperfect technology - and human error - so existing problems can't be solved overnight. Additional staff will help ward off the fatigue-related errors sometimes found in hospitals with overworked and understaffed nursing departments - nurses, after all, are often the ones stuck processing prescriptions...
...Pharmacists and drug companies are also trying to ward off dangerous mistakes, says Jesse Vivian, a pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy practice at Wayne State University in Detroit. "A lot of pharmacies are now using barcode technology to make sure the medications match the drug that's prescribed," he says...
...referred to as manic depression. Three years ago, I lost my 19-year-old son to suicide. No one listened to me when I said he was mentally ill and needed help. People concentrated on his behavior, not to mention my parenting. Counselors, psychologists, a hospital mental ward (twice), psychiatrists--we went through all that before his diagnosis. All those years of trying to find help, fighting the system, and now I visit the cemetery twice a week. My pain will never go away. Something must be done! JAN WORTHEN Goffstown...