WBZ reports Children's Hospital is currently treating more than 100 kids with the respiratory infection - and that 12 of them are in critical condition.

Enterovirus fact sheet.

In a lawsuit filed yesterday, MIT and Children's Hospital charge Shire Regenerative Medicine's product aimed at people with diabetic foot ulcers violates patents they hold for building skin grafts on a polyester matrix.

The two local institutions say Shire's Dermagraft, in which cells from newborn foreskins are laid on a thin membrane to grow a layer of skin that are then applied atop the ulcers that some diabetic patients develop on their feet.

They're seeking tons of money for the injuries the alleged patent infrigement has done them.

A federal criminal complaint against Richard Keller, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital and former medical director at Phillips Academy in Andover, details some of the DVDs he's alleged to have ordered online between 2009 and 2011. Associated Press reports neither the hospital nor the school reported any complaints about his behavior with children under his care.

Innocent, etc.

Children's Hospital Boston sent out a memo yesterday informing its staff that Myra Fox has died.

Myra Fox was the inspiration for Nurse Carol in "Curious George Goes to the Hospital", the beloved book that has been a part of our childhoods for generations.

Ms. Fox was known affectionately as the "Play Lady". She was the former Director of Child Life Services and worked in several other departments during her 44 years(!) at Children's. She retired in 2008.

According to the memo and to online interviews, when she first started at the hospital, Children's didn't allow parents to stay overnight in their children's rooms and visiting hours were limited, so nurses and hospital staff were called upon to keep patients as comfortable as possible. Ms. Fox was the first at Children's to organize activities "to help children keep their minds off their illnesses."

Over the years, the Child Life Specialist program has expanded to the point that there are now 30 staff members who offer comfort and support to Children's patients.

What a sad day!

Below, an interview with the Play Lady from before she retired in 2008:

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a worker injured at a Childrens Hospital construction project in 2003 has the right to sue the contractor who hired him because the site was a complete and dangerous mess.

A lower court had thrown out William Docos's lawsuit against John Moriarty and Associates on the grounds the leaning sheetrock that injured him was "an open and obvious" danger, so his injuries were his own fault.

But the appeals court reinstated his lawsuit, saying there's dangerous and then there's dangerous:

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a lawsuit against Children's Hospital by a man who claims he was abused by a psychiatrist between 1967 and 1969 because the law at the time granted charitable organizations immunity from any liability.

The legislature abolished "charitable immunity" in 1971, but the court said that claims against institutions had to be considered under the laws in place at the time the alleged offenses took place, rather than under the laws in effect when the lawsuit is filed.

Channel 25 reports on a Suffolk County Superior Court jury decision today.

Boston Police have put out an APB for Richard Edwards, 28 and Dawn Connolly, 25, of Hyannis, in connection with an incident around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 22 at
300 Longwood Ave.:

Officers spoke with the victim who stated that her 7 year old child was threatened with a knife. Both Edwards and Connolly are wanted for this assault and have warrants out for their arrest relative to this incident.

They were last seen driving a green 1995 Oldsmobile Ciera, with Mass plates: 23N-Z75.

Innocent, etc.