Brigham and Women's Hospital

Mass General Brigham is no longer delaying non-emergency procedures due to a shortage of intravenous fluids, but said rationing is continuing.

A tentative agreement has been reached to prevent a nurse strike at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said Thursday. The deal comes about two weeks after nurses voted overwhelmingly to approve a one-day strike. Union members said at the time that a year of contract negotiations had failed to bring an agreement. The union...

Hundreds of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood voted to authorize a one-day strike. For 10 months, they have been negotiating with Mass General Brigham leaders for a new contract but ultimately, the two sides are still far apart. “Progress has been made on several topics and we have presented a fair, equitable...

Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain have voted to authorize a strike. The near unanimous vote means that thousands of nurses could hit the picket line for a one-day strike.

Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have voted to authorize a strike, and hundreds of others may join their fight Thursday. At Faulkner Hospital in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, there’s about 500 nurses that say they have reached their tipping point and are scheduled to vote to strike until a list of demands are met. Some of...

Thousands of health care workers with Brigham and Women’s Hospital could soon be going on strike. The Massachusetts Nurses Association voted overwhelmingly to allow the Boston hospital’s nurses to hit the picket line. The tally was nearly unanimous, with 2,507 union members voting to enable a one-day strike and just 16 voting no. “We didn’t want to be here,...

Many of us need to take medication everyday, and for some people, it’s a lengthy daily regimen of prescriptions to manage our health. It can be an overwhelming workload, though, for doctors and pharmacists to track all of their patients’ prescriptions, according to Dr. Lisa Rotenstein. She is a primary care provider, who previously worked at Boston’s Brigham and...

At least 120 former patients have joined a class action lawsuit against a Boston-based physician accused of performing pelvic, breast and rectal exams on patients that were not medically necessary. The suit from Lubin & Meyer is one of several against Dr. Derrick Todd. In total, more than 125 former patients have obtained legal representation. Todd, who was a rheumatologist…

More than 100 plaintiffs have now joined a series of lawsuits filed against a Boston-based physician accused of performing pelvic, breast and rectal exams on patients that were not medically necessary. According to The Boston Globe, four separate lawsuits have now been filed against Dr. Derrick Todd on behalf of over 100 patients. The Boston law firm of Lubin &…

A woman who went into labor just before a Pink concert at Fenway Park ended up walking to the hospital to give birth last week. Angela Mercer’s new baby boy is healthy and her family is overjoyed, despite having missed the show they came to Boston to see, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Mercer walked from Fenway....