The limited, one-time promotion dubbed UberHEALTH offered free delivery of a flu vaccination service in Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. John Brownstein, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is mentioned.
Emergency room physicians say that if proper protocols are applied, the risk posed by Ebola doesn’t have to be significantly more threatening than the dangerous situations and pathogens doctors face in their everyday work. Stephen Epstein, assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Nearly a year after President Obama chose a Brookline doctor to be the next surgeon general, the 37-year-old nominee is still waiting to be confirmed by the Senate, even as the administration seeks public health leadership amid the Ebola scare. Vivkek Murthy, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the surgeon general nominee.
Hundreds of dietary supplements containing illegal drugs have been voluntarily recalled from the market in recent years at the urging of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but a significant number have remained available for purchase with their same dangerous ingredients, according to a new study. Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, led the research.
