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• AMA: Stop marketing energy drinks to minors

  is a common sense action that we can take to protect the health of American kids," said AMA board member Alexander Ding, a Boston doctor.The Suffolk County Legislature stopped short of prohibiting sales of the drinks to minors. Instead, lawmakers voted to   Read more »

• Minority Kids With Autism Less Likely to Use Specialty Services: Study

  care for complications tied to the disorder, a new study finds.Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston found that the rates at which minority children accessed specialists such as gastroenterologists, neurologists and psychiatrists,   Read more »

• Boston hospital cleaning 2,500-year-old mummy

  -- A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy is coming out of his coffin in Boston to undergo rare cleaning and restoration procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital.The mummy known as Padihershef has been on display at the third oldest general hospital in the United   Read more »

• Judge: Correction officials must disclose records to accused Boston bomber defense

  his commissary purchases, suicide watch logs and other files related to his incarceration, a federal judge has ruled.Federal Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ordered the records be handed over, while also ruling against a request by Tsarnaev's lawyers that   Read more »

• 'SoNew' tourism effort highlights Mass., RI, Conn.

  all over the world to walk the Freedom Trail in Boston , see the autumn leaves turn in Vermont and New Hampshire and eat lobster in Maine . A new campaign involving tourism officials in three states to the south and west of Boston is aimed at peeling off some   Read more »

Around the web

• Rankings: MGH Down From Top Spot To #2, Mclean Leads In Psych

  duck boat parade. Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital reclaimed the No. 1 spot after last year losing a 21-year reign to Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. As far as we know, there will be no parade this summer. On the upside, Mclean Hospital in Belmont, 24 m ago from CommonHealth Read more »

• It’s official: Massachusetts in midst of another heat wave

  Heavy rain and gusty winds are possible Thursday, with around a tenth of an inch of rain likely Thursday afternoon around Boston, according to the weather service. Northern Massachusetts could see hail Thursday, if conditions organize properly, the weather 11:16 AM from Boston.com Read more »

• A model to save foreclosed homes?

  the help of a $25 million loan it received from East Boston Savings Bank this spring. It is currently looking for local partners in Maryland to expand the program, said Cherry. Nationwide, the pace of foreclosures has slowed. The number of houses in some stage 11:11 AM from The Washington Post Read more »

• Johns Hopkins regains top ranking from US News

  in Baltimore has regained its place atop U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best hospitals. Last year, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston was in the top spot, displacing Johns Hopkins, which had been ranked No. 1 for 21 consecutive 10:53 AM from Boston.com Read more »

• Ageing of the heart reversed by youthful systemic factors!

  1 Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, USA Correspondence to: Andrew S Brack, Brack.Andrew@mgh.harvard.edu Abstract Age-associated changes in tissue maintenance and 10:36 AM from Nature.com Read more »