Tufts Medical Center wins trauma designation

2/15/09 10:10 AM

Tufts Medical Center earlier this month won its bid to become a major trauma center, despite contention from other hospitals in the Boston area. The hospital will now operate as a Level II adult trauma center, a designation that requires it to provide care to all patients, regardless of the extent of their injuries. It also mandates that the medical center have an operating room open and a trauma surgeon within 15 minutes of the facility at all times. Before the hospital was awarded its new status, adult patients who had suffered from more severe injuries often had to be sent to one of the four existing trauma centers in the Boston area. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital are all designated... 0 comment

More about the JuicyCampus shut down

2/14/09 4:39 PM

JuicyCampus.com, a popular online forum for college gossip, shut down last week due to financial difficulties. While it was online, the site generated a lot of controversy, was the subject of censorship and faced a number of legal challenges.   Assistant Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj, who teaches Media and Society, gave the Daily her take on the Web site and its closing:   "Juicy Campus received a great deal of attention for its content, but the content itself has nothing to do with the site going out of business, outside of the fact that the material didn't attract enough quality traffic to secure a desirable advertising base.   As far as the content goes, there were some quite disturbing elements, but I found the content to be more moronic than anything...

Blair lecture delayed; doors open at 4:00

2/2/09 1:14 PM

The much-anticipated 2009 Issam M. Fares lecture, which will feature former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking on contemporary foreign affairs, has been delayed about an hour. Doors will open at 4:00 p.m., rather than 3:00 p.m., and the program will begin at 5:30. Those who can't attend the lecture can follow the Daily's live Twitter coverage of the event at http://www.tuftsdaily.com/twitter. Below, the full text of Tufts' e-mail about the delay: ----------------- from: announcements@tufts.edu to: all@elist.tufts.edu date: Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM subject: Fares Lecture This Afternoon 2/2/09: Time Change We wish to inform you that the start time of the Issam M. Fares Lecture this afternoon by The Right Honourable Tony Blair has changed.  Mr. Blair's travel was...