Cookie settlement
By adamg - Wed, 12/08/2021 - 8:46pm

Patients at Mass. General and Brigham and Women's and their community hospitals and physician groups as well as patients at Mass. Eye and Ear and Dana-Farber are eligible to share in an $18.4-million class-action settlement of a claim involving information the health-care providers' Web site may have shared with Facebook and Google - but they have to sign up by Dec. 15. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 03/15/2020 - 12:02am

Update: Brigham and Women's, too.

WBZ reports. The person is now in self quarantine at home and the hospital is alerting everybody the person had contact with. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 12/18/2014 - 3:24pm

Shortly after 2 p.m., fire alarms started going off at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary and that, of course, brought a full complement of Boston firetrucks racing to the scene. The infirmary informs:

Code red (fire) called due to someone apparently smoking outside. Another good reason to quit that habit. All clear.

H/t Starr88.

By adamg - Fri, 10/24/2014 - 10:21am

The Boston Courant reports state transportation officials are working on plans to stick both sides of Storrow Drive under a Longfellow Bridge arch, which would let Mass.