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Joanne Marqusee Takes the Reins at Cooley Dickinson When Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital merged with Deaconness Medical Center 18 years ago, Joanne Marqusee was there to witness the aftermath. And […]

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Where Past and Future Meet

New HealthSouth Facility Opens Its Doors in Ludlow Mills Complex Looking back, Victoria Healy recalled that providing tours of what is now the former HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Ludlow was […]

Volume Businesses

Noted Eye Surgeon Andrew Lam Shows He Has the Write Stuff China 1944: American lieutenant David Parker and Communist guerilla Lin Yuen have nothing in common except a common enemy […]

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Cracking the Code

Genetically Modified Foods Are Ubiquitous — but Are They Safe? There’s a question Dr. Richard Wood likes to pose to students. “I will say, ‘how many of you know somebody […]

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It’s Not a Stretch

What’s Behind the Booming Popularity of Yoga? Armed with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology, Karoun Charkoudian took a good job with ExxonMobil in Houston. But a few years into […]

Diagnosis: Uncertain

Advances, Challenges Are Changing the Patient Experience It’s a story of opposing trends colliding across the healthcare landscape. For example, on one hand, the population is aging rapidly; on the […]

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Care Traffic Control

Mercy Medical Center Takes High-tech Path to Greater Efficiency The screens tell the story. Hundreds of stories, actually. They line the walls of a room at Mercy Medical Center, appropriately […]

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Look to the Future

Advanced Imaging Is Improving Disease Diagnosis and Treatment When many women think about medical imaging, they think of the mammogram. And that is rarely a pleasant experience, due in part […]

Setting Their Sights

A chart of eye care specialists in Western Mass. Click here to download the PDF

Losing Bet

Casino Buzz Puts Spotlight on Gambling Addiction The casino age may be underway in Massachusetts, causing some to worry that large, flashy gaming resorts will introduce the scourge of gambling […]

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Where There’s Smoke…

As E-cigarette Sales Escalate, So Too Does the Controversy His name was ‘The Marlboro Man.’ From 1954 to 1999, his masculine image became perhaps the most influential branding vehicle of […]

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Moving Away from the Pain

Traumatic Stress Recovery Center Helps People Live with the Past The pain of a traumatic experience, says Dr. Frank Gallo, often extends far beyond the event itself. “People re-experience those […]

Have Patients

A chart of the region’s acute-care hospitals Click here to download the PDF

Eliminating Guesswork

Effective Legal Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease Although it is important for everyone to plan for their future, legal planning for those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease takes on heightened […]

When Eating Becomes an Inner Struggle

New Treatment Programs Developed to Combat Eating Disorders By Dr. BARRY SARVET It practically goes without saying that human beings need to eat. Eating is not only necessary for survival, […]