Tag: healthcare
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The U.S. health care system prioritizes profits over people. A Brookline author examined how we got here.
High prescription costs, battles with insurance and class-dependent health outcomes define the American health care experience. How did it get like this? Harvard public health professor and Brookline resident John E. McDonough sought to answer that question in his new…
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Rep. Rogers looks at the issues that make him want to keep working on Beacon Hill
One of the few area elected state officials who holds monthly office hours in his district, Rep. David M. Rogers of Cambridge, made his case for another term on Beacon Hill, pointing to his work on health care, the environment,…
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How a Brookline pediatrician’s positive take on trauma care went national
What is it that allows some children to flourish despite everything stacked against them? It’s a question that has long puzzled researchers, and one that helped define the work of Brookline pediatrician Dr. Robert Sege. As a pediatric resident in…
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Giving patients a say in sharing their health data
Some patients want more control over their health data. Cambridge Health Alliance’s Hannah Galvin is working to help. Hannah Galvin (right) at the 2026 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Global Health Conference with Tom Leary (left), senior vice president…
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MA nursing vacancies back to pre-COVID levels. Is that enough? ‘Normal was not great’
While nurses and hospital leaders say it’s a positive that there’s been a recent decline in nursing vacancies, they also say there’s still work to do. New data from the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA) show that one in every 10 nursing positions is…
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Data shows drop in Massachusetts nursing vacancies, though experts say more work needs to be done
Vacancies in nursing positions across Massachusetts have decreased, according to a recent report on the state’s workforce from the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, and while nurse and hospital leaders have acknowledged the positive benefits from this, they say there is still…
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MA seeks solution to decline in number of primary care doctors
Arline MacCormack has had four primary care physicians in the past four years. MacCormack, a college administrator and longtime Newton resident, saw the same “fabulous” doctor through Newton-Wellesley Physicians Primary Care for more than two decades. But four years ago, her doctor…