How Climate Change Shapes Health, Health Care, and Physician Advocacy in Massachusetts

6/27/2018

temperatures; increased storm intensity, rainfall rates, and storm surge; temperature-related illness and death … visits and higher death rates in our vulnerable populations: the elderly, people with chronic heart …

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Vital Signs Summer 2018 (pdf)

6/27/2018

tures; increased storm intensity, rainfall rates, and storm surge; temperature-related illness … in heatwaves leading to more emergency room and office visits and higher death rates in our vulnerable …

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Call to Action – Health Care Cost Bill

6/14/2018

license. This would increase Massachusetts physician licensure fees to the second highest rate …

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6/14/2018

patients. She reviews CT lung screening results from the Lahey Clinic to illustrate changes in rates …

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Become a more effective colleague and leader

6/8/2018

rates high in New England  New England has some of the highest rates of skin cancer in the country …

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MMS Testimony on the CARE Act

5/21/2018

August shows that the opioid-related overdose death rate is 120 times higher for recently incarcerated …

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MMS Testimony on the CARE Act

5/21/2018

August shows that the opioid-related overdose death rate is 120 times higher for recently incarcerated …

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Massachusetts Medical Society & Alliance Charitable Foundation awards grants to health-focused organizations

5/18/2018

treatment in an effort to reduce the city’s opioid overdose and death rates and promote engagement …

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Shared Decision Making: Essential Skills for Prostate, Lung & Breast Cancer Screening

5/17/2018

4294981842 For patients, making decisions about getting screening tests for cancer involves weighing the benefits of early cancer detection and the possible harms.  The benefit is reduced risk of death from the cancer. Harms include over-diagnosis with associated over-treatment, the adverse effects of unnecessar

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Are you having trouble getting paid?

5/11/2018

, said that delaying access to tobacco and e-ciogarettes could reduce addiction rates and improve health … health scorecard shows that Massachusetts has a high rate of what researchers call "deaths of despair …

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