MGH In The News - May 2007

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May 31, 2007

• Can't Stand Back Pain? Surgery May Be the Answer - ABCNews.com
• Doc Gets Icy Honor - WBUR Radio
• Pfizer, Glaxo May Emulate Genentech Cancer Innovation - Bloomberg News
• Drugs can help kids with rare disorder - Oakland (Calif.) Tribune
• Patrick heralds company's decision to expand in Massachusetts - Associated Press
• Finger on the solution: Treatments pay off for Beckett - Boston Herald
• How to Win a B-School Competition - BusinessWeek Online

May 30, 2007

• Jonathan Kraft Interview (mentions MGH participation in new Patriots Place facility - WEEI Radio

May 29, 2007

• A better MGH, but affordable? - Boston Globe
• Heart congestion - Boston Globe
• Calorie Counting Can Be Macho - ABC News
• Three kidney donations make for one close Westport family - Warren (R.I.) Times Gazette
• Web pages offer direct links to hospital rooms - Cape Cod Times

May 28, 2007

• Lost Chances for Survival, Before and After Stroke - New York Times
  Cost Put a Stroke Treatment Out of Reach, Then Technology Made It Possible
  
• The business of survival - Boston Globe

May 27, 2007

• Melanoma reaches 'epidemic proportions' - Boston Herald
• What you can do when the critters invade backyards - Boston Globe
• Race to be first to 'hibernate' human beings - The Sunday Times (U.K.)
• The Global in the Local - Boston Globe Magazine

May 26, 2007

• Fertility doctors work to reduce 'instant families' - Concord (N.H.) Monitor
• Who'll Live, Who'll Die in Pandemic? (quoted MGH physician is named Paul Biddinger) - The Patriot Ledger

May 25, 2007

• $498m OK'd for MGH project - Boston Globe
• State approves half billion dollar expansion at MGH - Associated Press
• U.S. Opens a Sheltered Path to Asylum for Some Iraqis - New York Times
• Gravely ill newlywed hanging on for Plan B - Boston Herald
• $46.5M - hospital blows by goal - Martha's Vineyard Times
• Hospital Campaign Exceeds $46 Million - Martha's Vineyard Gazette
• Surprise inspection finds Stroger Hospital lacking - Chicago Tribune

May 24, 2007

• Aspirin cuts cancer risk - Newsday (N.Y.)
• Study on aspirin, colon cancer resurrects debate over Vioxx - Cleveland Plain Dealer
• How Aspirin Battles Colorectal Cancer - Ivanhoe Newswire
• State approves Mass. General expansion plan - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Partners HealthCare plans to borrow $800m (scroll down) - Boston Globe

May 23, 2007

• Aspirin May Keep Colon Cancer Away - HealthDay News
• Aspirin Blocks Only Some Colon Cancer - WebMD
• ASA's prevention benefits for colorectal cancer depend on tumour type - CBC (Canada) News
• Daily Aspirin Cut Risk of Colon Cancers With Excess COX-2 - MedPage Today
• Does where you live determine if you'll live? - USA Today
• Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve - Wired News
• Glaxo's Avandia Risks Prompt Doctors to Switch Drug - Bloomberg News
• Tear Down This Wall? - Harvard Crimson
• Knowles' Condition 'Stable' - Harvard Crimson

May 22, 2007

• New Birth Control Method to be Approved - New England Cable News
• Patients shouldn't stop use abruptly - Boston Globe
• St. Anthony's get Stroke award for stroke care - North Denver (Colo.) News

May 21, 2007

• Study: Diabetes drug increases heart attack risk (video report) - NBC Nightly News
• Common Diabetes Drug Found to Have Heart Risks (audio report) - All Things Considered/National Public Radio
• Diabetes Drug May Raise Heart Disease Risks - ABC News
• Diabetes pill tied to heart risks - Associated Press
• Gene quest (David Alsthuler is an MGH physician) - Boston Globe
• Changing the Physics behind X-Ray Imaging - Technology Review
• Babesiosis is spreading, and hard to diagnose - Lawrence Eagle Tribune

May 20, 2007

• Working your way through cancer - Boston.com
• Dream team - Boston Globe
• Snowbirds with a twist - Boston Globe

May 19, 2007

• Watching risks, week by week - Concord (N.H.) Monitor
• Alternative Financings Provide Biotechs With More Options - BioWorld

May 18, 2007

• Vitamin Do's and Don'ts (also choose video link) - WBZ-TV, Channel 4
• 'Dr. Jack's' big battles - Miami Herald
• Teens' illegal 'pill popping' on the rise - Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
• E-medicine Links Cambodian Villages to Boston - HMS Focus

May 17, 2007

• Mass. family fights Huntington's Disease (scroll down) - New England Cable News
• Helping Overbooked Kids Cut Back - Wall Street Journal (subscribers only)
• Despite losses, drug firm sees bright future - Boston Globe
• Trauma turns visitor into farm regular - Boston Globe (Globe North edition)
• Stents vs. drugs - Cape Cod Times

May 16, 2007

• Cancer patients turn to breast milk for treatment - KING Ch 5-TV (Seattle, also on other local TV newscasts)
• Quincy imam becomes first Muslim cleric on US religion panel - Boston Globe
• Med School Policies Earn C+ - Harvard Crimson

May 15, 2007

• Quincy imam makes history: First Muslim cleric named to U.S. commission - The Patriot Ledger
• Gear up for Granite State Quest - Exeter (N.H.) News-Letter

May 14, 2007

• Anxiety Ups Death Risk in Heart Failure Patients - HealthDay News
• Medical breakthroughs - what will they look like? - NBC Nightly News
• Start Losing Weight by Visiting the Dentist (also choose video link) - WBZ-TV, Channel 4
• Bleeding stroke victims get less treatment - United Press International
• Disease fails to slow Jon Lester's drive to return - USA Today
• Doctor's calling - Boston Globe
• Hospitals' move to e-files spurs a labor shortage - Boston Globe
• Are human beings genetically programmed to seek the sunshine? - Boston Globe
• Standardized testing results don't say much about youths - Salem (Oregon) Statesman Journal

May 13, 2007

• Emote control - Boston Globe
• Permanent Tattoos, Removable Ink - FOX News
• One mother's walking miracle - Palm Beach (Florida) Post

May 12, 2007

• Love story needs savior: Newlywed hubby seeks 2 new lungs - Boston Herald
• Time flies when you're having fun - Attleboro Sun Chronicle

May 11, 2007

• Gene advances bring ethical quandaries - Boston Globe
• Patrick's biotech plan sends bold message - Boston Globe
• FAST Moves Save Lives - iBerkshires.com

May 10, 2007

• Art Therapy Can Help Children - WCVB-TV, Ch. 5
• iPods Make the Heart Skip a Beat - HealthDay News
• Aspirin vs. colon cancer: study weighs benefits - Reuters
• An Aspirin a Day to Prevent Colorectal Cancer - Ivanhoe Newswire
• Aspirin 'prevents bowel cancer' - BBC News
• Review points to benefits of ASA for colon cancer prevention - CBC News (Canada)
• MGH Sets Record Straight on Joint Commission Survey - Nursing Spectrum
• Baylor plans to fight diabetes in S. Dallas - Dallas Morning News
• Stem cell bank first step in expansion - Worcester Telegram and Gazette
• AHA Forum: Secondary Prevention Neglected for Hemorrhagic Stroke Survivors - MedPage Today

May 9, 2007

• Herb high - WHDH-TV, Ch. 7
• Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus - New York Times
• Wyeth's Pristiq helps menopause hot flashes: trials - Reuters
• A billion for biotech: $$ for research, stem-cell bank - Boston Herald
• City could become stem cell center - Worcester Telegram and Gazette
• Invisible Heroes: Four nurses are the voices for burn victims - BostonWorks: Salute to Nursing
  The art and science of nursing
  Where are they now?
  Wanted: nurses who teach
• Local health execs among magazine's 'most powerful' list - Dallas Business Journal
• On birth: Dr. H and the women - The Prague Post (Czech Republic)

May 8, 2007

• Deval Patrick proposes biotech investment (choose video link) - New England Cable News
• Mass. governor pushes $1B stem-cell bill - Associated Press
• Patrick announces state's $1B plan for biotech investment - Boston Business Journal Online
• Science disputes autism's diet link - Toronto Globe and Mail
• Breast Cancer Prevention Trial in Limbo - (subscribers only) - JAMA
• Take a sun smarts quiz - Making the Rounds/BostonHerald.com
• Now more options for rotator cuff surgery - NorthJersey.com
• Flexible Fitness; Running without pain - MetroWest Daily News
• Couric on the go (scroll down) - Boston Globe

May 7, 2007

• 'No' to drug money - Boston Globe
• Are virtual colon cancer screenings ready for real-world usage? - Boston Globe
• CIMIT awards $5m to medical device researchers - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Another piece of the health care puzzle - Brockton Enterprise
• Olympics of biotechnology has international flavor - Wisconsin Technology Network

May 6, 2007

• It costs how much? - Boston Globe
• Self-Nonmedication - New York Times Magazine
• When to Hang It Up - Boston Globe Magazine
• Hip and happening - Boston Globe
• Reborn Leggat really kicking - Boston Herald
• Curbside lets patients focus on care - BostonNOW

May 5, 2007

• Hospitals tie CEO bonuses to safety - Boston Globe
• Lost body recovered by State Police- Boston Globe
• WBZ radio's Sullivan recovering after surgery - Boston Globe

May 4, 2007

• Patient safety may suffer at busy hospitals - Reuters Health
• A relaxation technique to combat stress (scroll down) - United Press International
• New cancer setback radio host - Boston Herald

May 3, 2007

• Mass. General to buy half of Charles River Plaza - Boston Globe
• Scientists Find Chromosome Link to Heart Disease - All Things Considered, National Public Radio
• Access to Care Requires Primary Care - Commonhealth, WBUR.org
• Pancreatic surgery up close - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Data integration key to better medical care - NetworkWorld
• Dalhousie profs to use grants for research on Alzheimer's, cancer - Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

May 2, 2007

• Bipolar Disorder Plagues A Child's Life (also choose video link) - The Early Show, CBS News
• CVS seeks to open clinics in its stores - Boston Globe
• CVS wants to open clinics in some Mass. stores (also choose video link) - Associated Press/WHDH-TV, Ch. 7
• Ouch! (scroll down) - Boston Globe
• Flutie takes to court to benefit autism services - Globe West Update/Boston.com

May 1, 2007

• Suspended disbelief in suspended animation - Baltimore Sun
• Under Criticism, Drug Maker Lilly Discloses Funding - Wall Steet Journal (subscribers only)
• MGH leads drug maker Lilly's list of grants - White Coat Notes/Boston.com
• Lilly gifts: $11.8 million for 495 groups - Indianapolis Star