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• FDA Meeting Held to Address Complaints About the Medical Device Approval Process

  Carrie Strasser | April 27, 2009 2:44 PM | 8 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The New York Times reported last week that a rare internal meeting was held by the FDA on Wednesday to address the complaints surrounding the medical device approval process. Dr. Donna-Bea...

• Study Suggests Patients Requiring Heart Implant Devices Should Seek Out Specialists

  Carrie Strasser | April 22, 2009 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The New York Times reported on a study released Tuesday that indicated that patients who had specialists implant their heart defibrillators had fewer complications than their counterparts whose...

• MGH Temporarily Closes Pediatric Surgery Program

  Carrie Strasser | April 17, 2009 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts General Hospital has temporarily stopped its pediatric cardiac surgery program. This comes after two babies suffered serious complications, one...

• Cape Cod Car Accidents and the "IME"....NOT!

  Bruce Bierhans | April 03, 2009 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Do you know what IME stands for? How about Independant Medical Exam. When it comes to car accidents and insurer requested IME's, falser words were never spoken. If you have had a car accident, and...

• Britain Takes Another Look at Mammograms and their Benefits

  Carrie Strasser | April 01, 2009 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Advocates and experts urged British health officials to revise informational fliers about mammography in a letter to the Times of London, reported the New York Times on Tuesday. The officials...

• Discrimination or Lay Offs - What are your rights as a pregnant woman?

  Carrie Strasser | March 27, 2009 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Neither laying off a pregnant woman nor laying off a woman on maternity leave violates federal employment law, reported the New York Times, if the employer cites reasons for the lay off that are...

• Documents Show that Psychiatrist Promised Favorable Results for Drug Company

  Carrie Strasser | March 23, 2009 6:02 PM | 1 CommentCape Cod, MA

  Dr. Joseph Biederman, a prominent child psychiatrist at Harvard University, promised the drug company Johnson & Johnson that certain studies of its medicines in children would yield positive...

• Dear President Obama/Part II/ What Mortgage Program?

  Bruce Bierhans | March 14, 2009 10:48 AM | 1 CommentCape Cod, MA

  Dear President Obama: I know you didn't read my last letter. But...someone in your office must have. You seem to have covered all my salient points. Reasonable debt/equity ratios, market interest...

• More Travelers Seeking Layoff Insurance

  Carrie Strasser | March 05, 2009 6:06 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A recent CNN report discussed the increased interest in layoff insurance by travelers attempting to make vacation plans in an uncertain economy. These plans allow people to get refunds for their...

• MA Insurance Board of Appeal to be Dissolved

  Carrie Strasser | March 02, 2009 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  On April 1, the Division of Insurance Board of Appeal, that hears approximately 50,000 motor vehicle insurance surcharge cases annually, will be dissolved reported the Boston Globe. The decision,...