Walgreens to buy rival Rite Aid for $17B
Walgreens Boots Alliance will buy rival Rite Aid Corp. for $17.2 billion cash, combining two of the three largest drugstore chains in the U.S. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2016. Under the agreement, Walgreens will pay Rite Aid shareholders $9 per share in cash. Rite Aid will operate as a subsidiary and will keep its name for the time being. Rite Aid share prices spiked early Tuesday upon reports about the deal. Rite Aid’s stock price jumped dramatically, trading was halted,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 27, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news

Postcards from South Carolina
In early October historic rains battered South Carolina. Flood waters tore through communities, leaving devastation in their wake and South Carolinians facing a long and uncertain path to recovery. Since the dawn of this disaster more than 800 Red Cross workers from impacted communities and across the country have joined in the effort to deliver comfort and relief to the flood-ravaged state. While the road to recovery may be challenging, heartwarming stories of hope are all around. Red Cross Disaster Case Workers Carrie Smith and Beverly Scott chat with Ladson, SC resident Timothy Jenner about flood damage to his home. �...
Source: Red Cross Chat - October 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jordan Scott Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Space Agencies Team Up Against Killer Asteroids
NASA and the European Space Agency are joining forces with other institutions to launch a program that will test their ability to pull off a major task: Prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.  Asteroids have been crashing into the Earth for billions of years and have been disastrous in the past, like when an asteroid ushered the extinction of the dinosaurs. And though we're not currently in danger of being struck by a massive space rock, scientists have been toying with lots of ideas to prevent threatening asteroids from hitting Earth. One of these ideas has given birth to the Asteroid Impact & ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 2, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Amberleigh to add memory care unit
Amberleigh Community wants to convert one of its wings to help fill a growing regional need for more specialized, memory care facilities. In the first step of its $6.24 million conversion, the Amherst Industrial Development Agency approved a series of tax breaks to advance the proposal. The incentive package, a seven-year-long payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, was approved by a 4-1 count by the AIDA directors. Tax breaks amount to $639,797 in sales, property and mortgage recording levies but will generate…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 28, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: James Fink Source Type: news

No Time for Tears: Coping with Grief in a Busy World
I truly believe that people are well-meaning. But when it comes to helping others through their loss, some of us just don’t have the skills to aid a grieving individual. We are often uncomfortable around those who have had a loved one die, and say things that are not helpful. And we often want to rush the other person through their grief, as it is difficult to sit in sadness. In No Time for Tears: Coping with Grief in a Busy World, Judy Heath addresses a number of different aspects when it comes to loss, especially when it comes to responding to a person who is grieving and taking note of what they are going through...
Source: Psych Central - July 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Paula Lopez Tags: Book Reviews Depression General Grief and Loss Holiday Coping Self-Help after a funeral after a pet dies Bereavement Coping With Death Coping With Grief coping with grief in a busy world coping with loss death of a friend death Source Type: news

I-Team: 8-Year-Old’s Hospital Stay Highlights State’s Challenges In Autism Care
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1506201523182600000AA.mp4 WEYMOUTH (CBS) – An 8-year-old child spent four weeks at South Shore Hospital, but he wasn’t sick.  Tyler is autistic and there was nowhere else for him to go. The I-Team found his case is not unusual.  Vulnerable children in Massachusetts wind up being “medically boarded” simply because there is not a bed available to meet their psychiatric or behavioral needs.  For autistic children like Tyler, the problem can be even more extreme. Tyler’s mother, Melissa Andrade, shared her story with WBZ-TV. “He just started hurting himsel...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: larasalahi Tags: Health i-Team Local News Syndicated Local Autism CBS Boston Children David Matteodo Hospital Lauren Leamanczyk WBZ Source Type: news

Brain Tumor Foundation Offers Free Scans In Boston
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1506201517285500000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – The Brain Tumor Foundation begins its week-long visit to the city of Boston offering free brain scans to the public, by appointment only. The MRI van is parked on Congress Street Plaza at 100 Federal Street and is welcoming all comers over the age of 18 who can identify a primary care physician to receive the formal report, so that any abnormalities can be addressed. Michael Shreiber, whose father died of a brain tumor, is the Chairman of the Board of the Brain Tumor Foundation and has helped sponsor the MRI van here in Bost...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Bernice Corpuz Boston Brain Tumor Foundation Dr. Mallika Marshall MRI Source Type: news

Matters Of The Mind: The Politics of Mental Health
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150612064819210AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) — Providing adequate treatment for the one-in-five American adults living with mental illness, and preventing future generations from suffering the same fate, comes down to prioritizing initiatives that work. “This is so obvious and yet we as a nation have not embraced it as fundamental to overall success in our society,” former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy told WBZ-TV. Read: More Matters Of The Mind Kennedy left Congress in 2011 and has spent the years since touring the country to advocate for mental health causes. T...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: nealjriley Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Bree Sison Jon Keller Matters Of The Mind Mental Health Patrick Kennedy Politics Source Type: news

Why Some Women Age Better Than Others
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1106201517454700000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Why is it that some women never seem to age while the rest of us develop wrinkles, saggy skin and age spots? To find out why, Olay, 23andMe, and Harvard researchers looked at 231 women in their 20s through their 70s from different ethnic groups using 3D imaging, hormone mapping, and genetics. They found that women who appear ageless have in common a set of 2,000 genes that help protect their skin against free radicals, sunlight and other damaging environmental factors. These genes are sometimes called Methuselah genes after...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local Syndicated Local 23andMe Dr. Mallika Marshall Harvard Methuselah genes Olay Source Type: news

Study: Eating Nuts Can Reduce Risk Of Death
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1106201517400800000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Just a half a handful of nuts could reduce your risk of death. Dutch researchers found that 10 grams of nuts or peanuts a day was associated with a 23% lower risk of death from diseases like cancer, diabetes, respiratory illness, and neurodegenerative diseases. There was no benefit seen with peanut butter.
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall Nuts Peanut Butter peanuts Source Type: news

Matters Of The Mind: Innovations In Mental Illness Treatment
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150611060256920AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – A push by the military to find mental health treatment for men and women returning from war is leading to the biggest surge of research in decades. Massachusetts General Hospital researchers received a $30 million grant from a defense agency to create an implantable brain device that deep stimulates parts of the brain not functioning properly, specifically in people suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury or major depression. Read: More Matters Of The Mind “What we’re trying to do is pro...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen BRAIN Initiative Bree Sison DARPA Dr. Darin Dougherty Dr. Emad Eskandar Dr. Ki Goosens Grhelin Matters Of The Mind Mental Illness PTSD Treatments WBZ TV Source Type: news

New Blood Test Could Quickly Reveal Complete Virus History
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1006201517392700000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Right now, if your doctor wants to know if you have the measles or HIV or the flu, they have to order one test for each virus. Imagine a day when you can go to your doctor’s office and with a simple prick of your finger, they can test for hundreds of different viruses at once. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed an assay called VirScan that can determine which viruses a patient has been exposed to, perhaps 10 years or more in the past. Viruses like influenza, herpes vi...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mwschooley Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women's Hospital Dr. Mallika Marshall Stephen Elledge VirScan Source Type: news

Skateboard Therapy Helps Whitman Boy Soar
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1006201517272600000AA.mp4 WHITMAN (CBS) – What if illness meant you couldn’t do too much, but once a day, you could soar? For a little boy from Whitman, it’s making all the difference. James Dodge is just six years old and spends most of his time in his wheelchair. “He has Polymicrogyria which means too many little folds in the brain. He has intractable epilepsy, hypotonia, global development delay,” says James’ mother Sarah Dodge. But every chance they get, his family brings him to “The Practice,” an indoor skate park in ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen James Dodge Paula Ebben Polymicrogyria skateboard The Practice Whitman Source Type: news

Matters Of The Mind: Mental Health And Crime
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150610060846487AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – A lack of treatment options is leading to large numbers of people with mental illness being locked up, according to experts in both criminal justice and mental health. “There are so many people that are locked up right now because there’s not a good plan,” says WBZ-TV Security Analyst Ed Davis. Read: More Matters Of The Mind Research from the Centers on Sentencing and Corrections finds that despite a drop in violent crime by 49-percent between 1983 and 2013, the number of people in prison nearly doubled from 6 million to ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Bree Sison Community Resources for Justice John Larivee Matters Of The Mind Mental Health PTSD Source Type: news

Matters Of The Mind: Identifying Kids’ Mental Health Issues
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150609061352210AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Arielle Sager, 17, of Westborough, is worried about finding a job this summer and hopefully earning enough to buy a car. She’s looking forward to gaining some independence as she grows up, after years of living in a group home for teens with mental health issues. “It was hard to leave my home but at the same time, I knew I was getting the help I needed,” Ari bravely told WBZ-TV. Ari’s mother, Pam, says watching her daughter melt down at home was isolating and scary. Read: More Matters Of The Mind “She said I don’t...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen ADHD Arielle Sager Bree Sison Matters Of The Mind Mental Health On Site Academy PTSD Source Type: news

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