Parents: MassHealth Won't Pay For Son's Wheelchair

Lynn Family At Odds With Mass Health Over 2-Year-Old's Wheelchair

This is my friend Courtney Davidopoulos' son, Matthew, who suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The family needs this story told as full-force as possible in order to apply maximum pressure for ( Read more... )

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Associate Scientist Position: in-life support of pharmacokinetic studies in support of small molecule and biologics drug discovery

Job description

- perform in-life pharmacokinetic studies on novel drug candidates in rodents
- schedules and plans PK studies in collaboration with scientists from project ( Read more... )

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise ( Read more... )

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

On Monday evening, Vance proposed to me and I accepted.

I had the pleasure of working with an amazing woman from Haiti many years ago at Genzyme. She was sent to the US in her mid-teens with her siblings for their safety by her father, a highly political figure in opposition to the regime in power. When I met her she was a fellow scientist studying for certification as an FDA regulatory specialist ( Read more... )

Best. Birthday present. EVAR!

Fresh-baked Honey Wheat bread with dinner :-D

With so many struggles and horrible things happening right now, a little victory goes a long way.

Submitted for consideration, from a friend's note on Facebook, Helicopter Parents and the Rising Counter CultureParenting is perhaps the most sacred duty any human being can take upon themselves. When producing a new human life into this world or assuming full responsibility for one, the stakes are about as high as they can get. Yet at times the ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCAS!!!

Caught them on camera in their daily "hey mom's awake let's go bother her first thing in the morning!" routine...

Posted to lolcats, this is my favorite so far:


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Huzzah! In late-stage negotiations for a contract job that starts next Monday, working with Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne:

1. Does anyone have experience with Oracle ERP products, or this one in particular?
2. What do I need to know about Oracle's ERP quirks? What were your successes and failures?

I want to speak intelligently with the client in these ( Read more... )