MGH In The News - April 2007

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April 30, 2007

• Migraines or more? (choose video link, David Chen in an MGH neurologist) - WHDH-TV, Channel 7
• Do Placebos Work? (choose link under "Nightly News Video") - NBC Nightly News
• Not so alien after all? - Boston Globe
• What they didn't teach in med school - Boston Globe
• Do Botox injections help with migraines? - Boston Globe
• Show and tell - Modern Healthcare (subscription required)

April 29, 2007

• Drugmakers, Doctors Get Cozier - Washington Post

April 27, 2007

• Mechanism produces resistance to lung cancer drugs: study - Agence France Presse
• Scientists Spot Mechanism Behind Lung Cancer Drug Resistance - HealthDay News
• Silencing Cancer: Combined therapies may stop tumor talk - Red Herring.com
• This week in Science - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Redstone, continued - Boston Globe
• Most Doctors Get Gifts From Drug Companies - Ivanhoe Newschannel

April 26, 2007

• Scarless surgery: New methods make use of body's natural openings - Associated Press
• Studies Uncover Genes Boosting Type 2 Diabetes Risk - HealthDay News
• Genetic understanding of diabetes deepens - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Doctors refuse to take bitter no-gift medicine - Chicago Tribune
• Doctor freebies common, study says - Los Angeles Times
• Survey: 4 in 5 docs reap bens from pharmaceutical firms - Newsday
• Gifts to Doctors Are Widespread - Wall Street Journal (subscribers only)
• Most doctors get money, gifts from industry - USA Today
• Docs delight, ethicists question - BostonNOW
• HIV Infected More Likely to Have Heart Attack - Ivanhoe Newschannel
• Heart at Increased Risk from HIV Infection - HeartZine (U.K.)
• Aronson, Rosenbaum honored for career achievements - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Newton-Wellesley opens joint reconstruction center - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Antidepressants don't help bipolar depression - Reuters Health
• God Is in the Dendrites - Slate.com
• Lester's big win: beating cancer - Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle

April 25, 2007

• Most U.S. doctors take drug company freebies: study - Reuters
• Most docs let drug makers buy them food - Associated Press
• Doctors' Ties to Drug Companies Called Commonplace - HealthDay News
• More than a quarter of doctors paid by industry, survey shows - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Nearly all US doctors have links with drug companies: study - Agency France Presse
• Most U.S. Doctors Have Ties to Drug, Device Industry - Bloomberg News
• Medical News: Low-Fat Diets, Doctors, Heart Test - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5
• (Almost) Everybody Does It - Newsweek Online
• Cardiologists and industry perks: Peer influence at a price - The Heart.Org
• Betting your brain - The Phoenix

April 24, 2007

• HIV Infection Seems to Raise Heart Attack Risk - HealthDay News
• HIV associated with higher heart attack risk - United Press International
• Seeking a Better Breast Scan - Wall Street Journal (subscription only)
• Study: Hospital goals compromise safety - Boston Herald
• Girls get the royal treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston Herald
• When The Mirror Lies - Ivanhoe Broadcast News

April 23, 2007

• Supreme Court abortion rule chills doctors: journal - Reuters
• Journal decries Supreme Court abortion ruling - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Possible bipolar disorder genes found, scientist reports - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Psychiatrists see big need in Ethiopia - Boston Globe
• Lester is the true picture of health in Fenway return - Providence Journal
• New fathers can struggle with postpartum depression - HealthDay News

April 22, 2007

• A gift born of addiction - Boston Globe

April 21, 2007

• Anger and Alternatives on Abortion - New York Times
• Five hospitals release data on inspections - Boston Globe

April 20, 2007

• Manufacturing Depression (choose audio link) - On Point/National Public Radio
• Our Broken Mental Health Systems - The Nation (website only)
• Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews - New York Times
• Patrick names own majority to council, can undo Romney policy - Associated Press
• NIH Budget: Boom and Bust - Science
• McColgan boosted brokerage business - Boston Globe
• New Harvard Department the First to Span Schools - HMS Focus
• Pharmacology to Lead Off Second Year, Play Role in Human Systems - HMS Focus
• Human Development: Why People Do the Things They Do - HMS Focus
• Appointments to Full Professorships - HMS Focus

April 19, 2007

• MGH receives historic gift: $35m for ER and burn unit - Boston Globe
• Redstone Donates to Health Care - Wall Street Journal (subscribers only)
• Hospital's $35M gift will 'transform care' - The Patriot Ledger
• Drug nets $284m for MGH - Boston Globe
• New drug aims to treat veterans' trauma - The Independent (U.K.)

April 18, 2007

• Redstone makes $35 million gift for burn, trauma research at MGH - Associated Press
• Redstone pledges $105 mln for health research - Reuters
• Mass General sells Enbrel rights for $213m - Daily Business Update/Boston.com
• Experimental Drug Shows Promise in Brain Cancer (scroll down) - WebMD

April 17, 2007

• Astra drug shows glioblastoma promise: researchers - Reuters
• Opening Eyes to a Slowly Dimming World - New York Times
• Patients can manage their own care better, researchers argue - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Manning completes marathon for her young son - Newburyport Daily News
• Stepping it up - Boston Globe

April 16, 2007

• New genetic risk factors for Crohn's disease identified - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• ROSE: 110 area runners set to go - Attleboro Sun Chronicle

April 15, 2007

• Marathoner Roba thanks local doc for saving her son's life - MetroWest Daily News
• BayCounty pair preparing for long run - 26-plus miles - Bay City (Mich.) Times
• FACES in the crowd - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

April 14, 2007

• Runners Head To Expo To Stock Up On Marathon Gear - WBZ-TV, Ch. 4
• Sox wives running for worthy causes - RedSox.com/MLB.com
• Elizabeth Sheehy, at 75; nurse dedicated to burn victims - Boston Globe

April 13, 2007

• The Genetics of Depression - Technology Review
• Doctor's orders - Boston Herald
• Children face delays in mental health care - Boston Globe
• Forecast hasn't clouded plans to proceed - Boston Globe
• Hungry for more (choose audio link) - Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Radio

April 12, 2007

• Almost Killing Patients to Cure Them - The Informed Reader/Wall Street Journal Online (subscribers only)
• Running for a good cause - North Andover Citizen

April 11, 2007

• Look beyond the fat - USA Today
• Documentary delves into world of obesity - Calorie Counter News
• Hats 'on' at Mason Rice - Newton Tab

April 10, 2007

• Doctor, nurse, or student? Consult the white coat - Boston Globe
• Analysis: Chinese healthcare gap widens - United Press International

April 9, 2007

• Device promises to eliminate a woman's period (also choose video link) - WBZ-TV Channel 4
• Firm's future hinges on new hepatitis drug - Boston Globe
• Plans for anemia drug run into roadblocks - Boston Globe
• Scientists seek to 'see' brain development - United Press International
• MGH group to study genes and heart attacks - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• PBS documentary gives a face to obesity - Los Angeles Times
• MGH helps battle of the bulge - Making the Rounds/BostonHerald.com

April 7, 2007

• John Lawrence, at 97; businessman, sportsman, volunteer - Boston Globe
• A kidney from the heart - San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Tribune

April 6, 2007

• Immune Scavengers Target Alzheimer's Plaques - HMS Focus
• Van Vactor Named Head of BBS - HMS Focus

April 5, 2007

• Harvard creates Developmental and Regenerative Biology Department - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• New department approved - Harvard Gazette
• City woos medical center - Boston Globe (Globe West edition)
• Hamilton's back in the saddle again - Boston Globe

April 4, 2007

• Risk found by '02 hormone study challenged - Boston Globe
• Mammography Screening Guidelines Muddy the Waters - MedPage Today
• Potential treatment for infant lung disease - United Press International
• Depression 'more likely' in pregnancy - Financial Times (U.K.)

April 2, 2007

• Can't Quit Smoking? It May Be In Your DNA (choose video link on right) - CBS Evening News
• Book puts clinical testing of minorities on trial - Boston Globe
• Pregnancy Weight Linked to Heavy Kids - WebMD
• Pay it forward: Organ donor links chain of hope - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  
• Hospital construction takes a green path - Boston Globe
• How should I dispose of unneeded or expired medicines? - Boston Globe
• Aspirin and women (scroll down) - Boston Globe

April 1, 2007

• Doctoring hospital infections - Boston Herald
• Gastric bypass alternative could change lives of obese teens - Delaware News Journal
• Paths to new T stop paved with risk - Boston Globe