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Two Boston hospitals were ranked among the nation's top hospitals in U.S. News and World Report's 2011-2012. Massachusetts General Hospital jumped from third in 2010-2011 to second this year, behind perennial hospital "Honor Roll" winner Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore. Johns Hopkins has been the best hospital every year U.S. News has ranked hospitals.
Mitt Romney will finally offer a health care plan. What has taken him so long? Okay, we know our former governor actually already offered a plan. As it was way too similar to the job-killing, sovereignty-stealing ObamaCare*, Romney has to pretend it never happened, and offer a new plan, because there are a lot of Republicans who really do view it as a job-killing, sovereignty-stealing plan regardless of what i's real impact is.
A cancer researcher for Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's was killed on Tuesday morning after she was struck by a Paul Revere Co. bus in Boston. According to the Boston Police Department, 50-year-old Simin Arad was hit by the Longwood Medical-area shuttle at the intersection of Ruggles Street and Huntington Avenue around 9 a.m. She was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Police said the driver triedto stop. [Globe], [WCVB]
It's baaaaaack. Norovirus has brought "gastrointestinal misery" to Brigham and Women's, Mass General, and Children's Hospital Boston daycare, according to the Globe. People aren't washing their hands as much as they should be, and norovirus loves dirty hands.
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