At the end of last year, the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation sponsored a half-day gathering of public health folks, nutritionists, researchers and others to discuss diet, exercise and kids.  The Foundation Board voted earlier in 2007 to focus the Foundation’s efforts over the next several years on these three topics - which we’ve branded, “Growing Up […]

Last month, I posted a blog on work being done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University that had demonstrated tremendous success using checklists in ICUs to reduce C-line infection rates. I referenced an article by Brigham and Women’s Surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker as the source of my information. Imagine my disappointment when I read […]