The problem is urgent, said Dr. Glenn Flores, a Boston Medical Center physician and lead author of the report in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. “If the disparities continue it has the potential to affect the health and productivity and well-being of our entire nation,” Flores said. There were 12.3 million Hispanics under […]
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WASHINGTON — This year’s Kennedy Center Honors recognizing outstanding artists and performers managed to skip the political drama that loomed over it earlier this year — just ask honoree Norman Lear. Ahead of Sunday night’s festivities at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the longtime television producer behind “All in the Family” and […]
Kristen Kish made winning the “Top Chef: Seattle” finale look easy. In reality, preparing her five-course meal on the fly as the Bravo cooking competition’s judges and a crowd of diners spectated from the sidelines was a non-stop endeavor requiring several hours of preparation — and some phony silverware. The 28-year-old chef de cuisine at […]
Bayer will pay the government about $250 million and Glaxo will pay about $90 million for failing to give the Medicaid program the lowest price charged to any consumer, according to the agreement negotiated with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston and Medicaid fraud investigators around the country, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday. Bayer confirmed […]
BALI, Indonesia – An American man has confessed that he killed his girlfriend’s mother in a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island, and the girlfriend has acknowledged helping him stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from Chicago, were arrested in Bali on […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — At least 12 people, including two children, were killed Friday when police engaged in a shootout with bank robbers, according to authorities in northeastern Brazil. The two attempted heists in the state of Ceara began around 2:30 a.m. in the downtown area of the city of Milagres. Robbers at one bank […]
Dutch doctors estimate that at least five newborn mercy killings occur for every one reported in that country, which has allowed euthanasia for competent adults since 1985. In 2002, doctors at University Medical Center Groningen helped create the so-called Groningen protocol, a list of standards for performing and reporting euthanasia of newborns with serious, incurable […]
HONG KONG — An angry crowd tried to charge barricades used by pro-democracy protesters to occupy part of downtown Hong Kong as a standoff with authorities dragged into a third week. Several hundred people, many of them middle aged or older men, gathered in front of barricades on a main road Monday, chanting, “Open the […]
TORONTO – A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by ideological and political motives, police said Sunday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in […]
Updated 7:46 PM ET STAPLETON, Ala. Jody Payne, a guitarist who toured with Willie Nelson for more than three decades, has died. He was 77. Baldwin County Coroner Stan Zinson says Payne died at 5:12 a.m. Saturday at a hospital from cardiac problems. He says Payne got up early in his house in Stapleton, Ala., […]