A medical technology company that employs 500 people here should get a significant boost – translating into more jobs – from President Obama’s economic stimulus package, Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday.
Patrick’s remarks came during a tour of eClinicalWorks’ Rte. 9 headquarters where he and officials were shown the software that allows physicians and other health care workers to tap into up-to-the-minute information on patients.
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A medical technology company that employs 500 people here should get a significant boost – translating into more jobs – from President Obama’s economic stimulus package, Gov. Deval Patrick said yesterday.
Patrick’s remarks came during a tour of eClinicalWorks’ Rte. 9 headquarters where he and officials were shown the software that allows physicians and other health care workers to tap into up-to-the-minute information on patients.
“The very good Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze raise awareness of deadly pancreatic cancer
Updated
Friday, January 16th 2009, 5:38 PM
It’s a deadly disease with a dismally poor survival rate and so few initial symptoms that sufferers often don’t know they have it until it’s too late.
– made headlines this week.
Swayze, diagnosed a year ago with the most common and grimmest form of the disease, was hospitalized with pneumonia last Friday. And Wednesday, Read the rest of this entry »

Governor Deval Patrick yesterday asked the state’s most prominent hospital and health insurance leaders to take quick action to hold down rapidly rising healthcare costs, suggesting that if they did not take steps on their own, they might face new government regulation.
Meeting with healthcare industry executives in response to recent articles by the Globe Spotlight Team about the cost of medical care, Patrick said he is considering holding hearings Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Swayze checked into a hospital Friday morning with
pneumonia.
The actor has been undergoing treatment for inoperable stage-four
pancreatic cancer.
Swayze’s hospitalization came shortly before he was scheduled to
meet with TV critics and journalists at the TV Critics Assn.’s
winter press tour in Universal City at noon Friday to promote his
new series for A&E “The Beast.”
A&E president and GM Robert DeBitetto opened the network’s
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Actor Patrick Swayze, the
“Dirty Dancing” star who is battling pancreatic cancer, has
been released from a weeklong stay at a hospital where he was
treated for pneumonia, People magazine reported on Friday.
Swayze, 56, was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Jan. 9,
hours before he was scheduled to appear at a gathering of
television critics to promote his new TV crime drama, “The
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Governor Deval Patrick yesterday accelerated his administration’s efforts to control spiraling statewide healthcare costs, warning that rising premiums threaten to crush families and businesses and doom Massachusetts’ groundbreaking experiment with universal insurance.
Patrick said officials are considering using state insurance regulations to block excessive healthcare premiums. He is also summoning leaders of insurance and hospital companies for Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Swayze has been released from the hospital, his rep confirms.
“I am happy to announce that Patrick Swayze is home after a brief hospitalization for pneumonia,” his rep Annett Wolf tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Swayze, 56,
into the hospital for observation on Jan. 9 after revealing he had pneumonia, canceling his appearance at the Television Critics Association press event to promote his new A&E series,
, which premiered Jan. 15.
The Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Swayze checked into a hospital Friday morning with
pneumonia.
The actor has been undergoing treatment for inoperable stage-four
pancreatic cancer.
Swayze’s hospitalization came shortly before he was scheduled to
meet with TV critics and journalists at the TV Critics Assn.’s
winter press tour in Universal City at noon Friday to promote his
new series for A&E “The Beast.”
A&E president and GM Robert DeBitetto opened the network’s
presentation Read the rest of this entry »

HOUSTON (AP) — Injured Houston wide receiver Patrick Edwards is back in the hospital.
Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin, in an interview Wednesday with Houston television station KRIV, said Edwards went back into a Houston hospital Monday “for precautionary reasons because of a risk of infection at this time.”
Edwards was going after a pass when his right shin hit a cart in the back of the end zone Oct. 28 in a game against Marshall.
He Read the rest of this entry »