Year: 2006

After 30 years in exile, thalidomide is back

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Thomas P. Fuller, ScD, CIH Almost everyone knows the story of “thalidomide babies”: the drug used widely in the early 1960’s to… Read more »

The prevention of back injury is within us

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Robert P. Naparstek, MD Medical Director, Caritas-Good Samaritan Occupational Health Services

The benefits of safe patient handling

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Jan DuBose, RN Recent legislative initiatives in states across the country, including a bill in the Massachusetts legislature (H.2662), provide a strong… Read more »

Nursing by the numbers

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition