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MGH In The News - December 2002

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December 30, 2002

• Virtual second opinions - LA Times
• Northeast Quietly Becomes a Health Care Corridor - New York Times

December 26, 2002

• Women's Groups Question FDA Panel Pick - Associated Press

December 24, 2002

• FDA Reproductive Panel Choices Spark Controversy - HealthScout News

December 23, 2002

• Therapeutic AIDS Vaccine Said Promising - Associated Press
• Vaccine Quashes AIDS in Monkeys - HealthScout News
• Striking a healthy balance: Plan helps HMOs control steep bills for select patients - Boston Herald

• Newborns often do just as well going home early - LA Times

December 22, 2002

• Hate attack spawns outrage, disbelief
  Beating of Indian students unleashes immigrants' fears - Boston Globe
• Body scans lure patients seeking inside information - Boston Herald

December 21, 2002

• Partners posts best results ever: Growing number of hospitals in black - Boston Globe
• Children's posts positive numbers: Cost-cutting leads to $15M operating gain - Boston Herald
• Samsonov sets a date: Bruin's ailing wrist to be repaired Tuesday - Boston Globe
• For Tennessean, pushing health care agenda a priority - Boston Globe
• New Challenge for a Surgeon Turned Senator - New York Times
  

December 20, 2002

• Consultants urge universal health care in Mass.
  Plan to be proposed to Legislature would cost up to $6b extra - Boston Globe
• Highlight On Drugs: Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet - InteliHealth

December 19, 2002

• Birth Trends: Teen Moms Down, Preemies Up - Associated Press
• Bio Box for Tennessee Senator Bill Frist - Associated Press
• Test Helps Predict Breast-Cancer Survival - Associated Press
• Gene test could reduce breast cancer chemo - Boston Herald
• Brigham deaths prompt review - Boston Globe

December 18, 2002

• Spinal cord researchers seeing progress on paralysis - Boston Globe
• Diuretics' Value Drowned Out by Trumpeting of Newer Drugs - New York Times
• Miracle win pays couple's med bills - Boston Herald
• Genes Can Predict Breast Cancer Survival - Associated Press

December 17, 2002

• Treating heart arrhythmias - Boston Globe
• Blue Cross to give doctors care-, cost-based bonuses - Boston Globe
• For Hypertension, Cheaper May Be Better - BusinessWeek
• Despite Study, Docs Still Like Statins - WebMD

December 16, 2002

• Caesarean Births Hit High Mark - Washington Post (also appeared in Globe)
• Progress in Alzheimer's Research (listen to audio file) - WBUR Radio

December 15, 2002

• Dire need for organ donors is status quo - Boston Globe (Globe West)

December 14, 2002

• Report: Area hospitals fall short - Boston Herald

December 13, 2002

• US reviews safety of MGH experiment - Boston Globe
• VUMC doctors defend research - The Tennessean
• Immune Cells May See Strain of HIV But Be Blind to Viral Cousin - HMS Focus
• Harvard Reports Efforts Against AIDS in Africa - HMS Focus
• Conference Fosters Dialogue on Biosecurity - HMS Focus
• Grillo Surgery Professorship Announced/Memoir Tells of Woman's Heart Attack Survival, MGH Doctors Who Helped (scroll down) - HMS Focus
• Can't Get That Song Out of Your Head? Scientists Explain Why - ABCNews.Com

December 12, 2002

• Study Confirms Benefits of Lower Blood Pressure - HealthScout News
• Nutrition advice helps heart-healthy diets succeed (scroll down) - United Press International
• High-tech scan tool put in use at hospital - Boston Globe (Globe West)
• Feds Demand Patient Data From Lung Disease Trials - Newhouse News Service

December 11, 2002

• Medical team en route to aid Guam - Boston Globe
• Victims say domestic abuse affected their work - MetroWest Daily News
• Chemicals may damage sperm - Boston Herald
• 3-D mammography better detects lesions (scroll down) - United Press International
• Scientists grow teeth in lab - BBC News
• Re-Infection Case Raises Doubts About Vaccine - Gay.com

December 10, 2002

• A team of nurses from Boston is on its way to the scene of a natural disaster (scroll down) - WBZ-TV, Ch. 4
• 'Skinny Pill for Kids' may be harmful - CNN.Com

December 9, 2002

• Caution over much-touted test - LA Times (syndicated)

December 8, 2002

• Radical change in doctor training needed - Boston Globe

December 7, 2002

• Outspoken physician monitored, suspended - Boston Globe

December 6, 2002

• Mass. institutions look to match Calif. in grant totals - Boston Business Journal
• UTSW begins digital mammography trial - Dallas Business Journal

December 5, 2002

• Hospital chief picked to lead task force - Boston Globe (Globe West)
• Doctor to head Newton North committee - Daily News Tribune
• Parents sue over child's death linked to prescription - Associated Press
• A Ritalin alternative: New drug hailed as safe, convenient for many children - Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch

December 4, 2002

• Risk to offspring is found in male biological clock - Boston Globe
• A Male Biological Clock? - WBZ-TV, Ch. 4

December 3, 2002

• Rating the hospital raters - Boston Globe
• Rubella Vaccine Okay 1 Month Before Pregnancy - Reuters Health

December 2, 2002

• Best-selling authors teach fellow docs about fiction writing - Lewiston (Me.) Sun-Journal
• Pioneer Female MD Dies at 85 - Harvard Crimson
• William Parson, doctor who revamped Uganda's medical school, dead at 89 - Associated Press
• Mercury buys drug target from MGH - Boston Business Journal (website only)

December 1, 2002

• Strong medicine - Boston Globe
• Peace, Love, and Beacon Hill - Boston Globe
• Doctor's creative thinking cures centuries-old ills - The News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
• A new face for Christmas - Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)