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	<title>Boston Health News</title>
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		<title>Mass docs and clinics start scheduling H1N1 vaccines for high risk groups</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/mass-docs-start-scheduling-h1n1-vaccines-for-high-risk-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 8 &#8211; Globe story on how the state&#8217;s distributing the vaccine.
It takes into account which of eight different vaccine formulations are being made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency that buys all the doses and functions as the national clearinghouse. Some doses are for infants and toddlers. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2202&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health plans milk college students</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/health-plans-milk-college-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state has issued a new report documenting yet another way college students get nickle and dimed &#8211; on health insurance. The message here &#8212; stay on your parents plan.
Here a link to a PPT on the actual study.  
This from the Globe story:
Insurance companies rack up much higher profits on health coverage sold to nearly 100,000 Massachusetts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2196&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Town Hall Clamor Arrives in Washington</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/town-hall-clamor-arrives-in-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About Health Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A round up on Kaiser Health News: Tea Party Steeps on Capitol Hill.
From the NYTimes web site:
WASHINGTON — A sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall on Saturday in the largest rally against President Obama since he took office, a culmination of a summer-long season of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2186&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academics, industry, health reform and medical devices</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mother-jones-on-medical-device-companies-and-health-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About Health Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[massachusetts drug and device maker law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes business section has an update on academic/industry partnerships and explains new transparency rules in the Senate reform bill. Massachusetts has had a state law on this but it&#8217;s only been in effect for a few months. 
Also, read on and find that for first time I my career, I found a device (or drug) maker list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2169&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding to the Debate Over the Mass model</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/adding-to-the-debate-over-the-mass-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[massachusetts health plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Wall Street Journal:
A Debate in Massachusetts 
Has the state&#8217;s plan succeeded? The two sides square off.
Here, arguing that the state program is a success, is Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a Boston-based, nonpartisan public-policy group that researches financial, tax and economic issues. The group is also part of the Massachusetts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2157&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Wonk Review: Killer viruses and the undead public option</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/health-wonk-review-killer-viruses-and-the-undead-public-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killer viruses, computers that see all, and the undead public option. (Or, as Jon Stewart said last night &#8211;&#8221;It&#8217;s alive!&#8220;) Welcome to the haunted edition of the Health Wonk Review &#8211;  the  floating digest of posts from the health policy blogosphere. This week, we put the death back into death panels.
 The health care system is an out-of-control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2091&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The short red line gets long &#8212; Flu symptoms jump in Mass</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/the-short-red-line-flu-symptoms-jump-in-mass/</link>
		<comments>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/the-short-red-line-flu-symptoms-jump-in-mass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHN has been regularly updating an earlier post. But, it looks like it is time to put H1N1 back on the top of the queue.  
11/5 New state weekly report:
As illustrated in this week&#8217;s report, we continue to see dramatic increases in the number of cases of Influenza-like illness (ILI) across the state. This means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2071&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screening for Cancer Questioned</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/screening-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHN thinks this it is huge that the American Cancer Society finally admitted that cancer screening sometimes leads to overdiagnosis.
Or did they? This blog item from the Associations of Health Care Journalists notes that ACS backpedaled a day after the NYTimes reported on the society&#8217;s change of heart. Check out their links too.  
(Times writer Gina) Kolata’s story was published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2064&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform, wired and unwired</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/health-reform-wired-and-unwired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a State House hearing scheduled today on bill to establish  a single payer health care system in the state. BHN missed it and can&#8217;t find any reports. We&#8217;ll keep looking. Here&#8217;s the background from Mass Care.
We are going to try to hit this wired health care meeting,  which takes place tomorrow and Friday at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2051&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BU prof raises questions about anti-tobacco efforts</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/bu-prof-raises-questions-anti-tobacco-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHN noted the name of Boston University&#8217;s Dr. Michael Seigel in a recent NYTimes story on the link between smoking bans and heart disease. The study concluded that bans trigger a quick and robust drop in heart disease
Seigel called the study &#8220;sensationalist.&#8221; Scientists rarely call anything sensationalist. They tend to use terms like &#8220;overstated&#8221; or &#8220;not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&blog=6495857&post=2038&subd=tinkerready&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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