MGH In The News - July 2004

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July 30, 2004

• 10 large hospitals resuming taxus use - Boston Globe
• Brigham bringing back taxus stents - Boston Herald
  
  

July 29, 2004

• Drug rules questioned: Reform saves time, money, docs write - Boston Herald
• For now, stem cells hold more hope than answers - Philadelphia Inquirer
• New drug mix helps those with Hepatitis C and HIV - Reuters

July 28, 2004

• Young doctors working less hours - Associated Press
• Its smooth sailing for commuters - Boston Globe
  

July 27, 2004

• Many surgery patients wake up nauseated - Boston Globe
• '60 Minutes' widow takes on MGH: Earning power adds up to $50M lawsuit - Boston Herald
• Traffic? What traffic? - LA Times
• After a recall, Boston Scientific tries to assure wary investors - New York Times
  

July 26, 2004

• Defying dogma - Boston Globe
  

July 25, 2004

• Would presidency benefit Bay State? - Boston Globe

July 24, 2004

• Looking for an angel - Boston Globe
  

July 23, 2004

• Volatile Chemistry: Children and Antidepressants - Science Magazine

July 22, 2004

• An executive on a mission - Boston Globe
• Boston braces for Dem invasion - CBSNews.com
• Cervical cancer higher among some women - WCVB, Ch. 5
• Viral meningitis - WHDH, Ch. 7

July 20, 2004

• Can you get a sunburn with the car windows up? - Boston Globe
• Hub visitors brace for rush delivery - Boston Herald
• Toenail infections: Not pretty, sometimes painful - New York Times

July 19, 2004

• Heart defibrillator at home? Experts debate pros, cons - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5
• Doctors explore risky bladder cancer treatment - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5

July 18, 2004

• Stitchers welcome to help (scroll down) - Boston Globe
• IDC: I Don't Care - Boston Globe

July 17, 2004

• Boston Scientific recalls heart stents - Boston Globe

July 16, 2004

• Doctors Explore Risky Cancer Treatment - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5
• AIDS Division Awarded Research Center Grant - HMS Focus
• Nano and Stem Cells: Crossroads Technologies Mapped at Korea Conference - HMS Focus

July 13, 2004

• Your life is in hospital workers' (clean) hands - Boston Globe
• What caused the woman's headache and paralysis? - Boston Globe
• Lack of AIDS doctors in poor countries stalls treatment - Associated Press/Wall Street Journal
• Growth Hormone Helps HIV Patients - Ivanhoe Newswire
• GHRH May Be Helpful for HIV-Induced Lipodystrophy - Medscape
• Anorexia Is Hitting Older Women - WebMD

July 11, 2004

• Meeting their angel (Francis Delmonico is an MGH physician) - Providence Journal
• Advice column got Alzheimer's Association rolling (scroll down) - Chicago Sun Times
• It doesn't weigh on Light - Boston Globe

July 10, 2004

• Electronic error tracking on call at hospitals - Boston Globe
• Death won't take a holiday - Associated Press

July 9, 2004

• Parents want hospital insulin blunder records - Boston Herald
• Chinese, US hospitals team up in Shanghai - China View
• Bundling Up - Health Facilities Management
• University of Texas technology will be used to fight AIDS - Cox News Service

July 8, 2004

• Aspirin outdoes Celebrex in preventing cancer - Reuters Health
• Gene Discovery Could Change Psychiatric Care - HealthDay News
• Parents Of Son With CP Want Hospital Records - Associated Press
• Lifesaving potential of mammograms lost due to underuse - Women's Cancer Network

July 7, 2004

• Searching for answers - Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune

July 6, 2004

• Older Women, Too, Struggle With a Dangerous Secret - New York Times
• Breaking through delirium - Boston Globe
• Boston Hospitals Prepare for DNC Scenarios (choose audio link) - WBUR Radio
• Hospitals looking out for No. 1 in survey - Boston Globe

July 5, 2004

• A breath of new life - Central Maine Morning Sentinal
• Hub back on patient map: Skill draws ill travelers despite 9/11 - Boston Herald
• Thin disguise: Health-care pros warn of Web sites that push eating disorders - Boston Herald
• Risks link three lives in Weston - MetroWest Daily News
• Diabetes news spurs fund-raising odyssey - Durham (N.C.) Herald Sun

July 4, 2004

• Tallas on way back from critical save - Boston Globe
• Everything you ever wanted to know about convention week - Boston Globe

July 3, 2004

• New insight into Kaposi's Sarcoma (scroll down) - United Press International
• Comfortably Numb: Anesthetics are slowly giving up the secrets of how they work - Science News

July 2, 2004

• MGH One Of Nation's Top Hospitals, Survey Says - Associated Press
• Boston-Area Hospitals Feel DNC Squeeze - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5
• Safety display aimed at parents - Boston Globe
• 'Cracker biz booming as injuries increase - Boston Herald
• An error compounded - Boston Globe

July 1, 2004

• Mental toll on troops detailed - Boston Globe
• Drug boosts egg numbers in mice ovaries - New Scientist
• Could we defeat the menopause? - Nature.com
• Family Travels Across Country, Raises Money For Diabetes - NBC-17 TV, Durham, N.C.