• BBA relief on horizon for new year
  Hospitals and health systems received good news before ending the year 2000. In December, negotiators from the White House and Capitol Hill reached an agreement that would provide relief from the drastic cuts imposed by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA).

• Christmas gift started house officer tradition
  The East Medical Pup began its long association with the MGH when nurses at the hospital's East Medical Service gave the wooden pull toy to house pupil Joseph Aub, MD, on Christmas day in 1914.

• If the forecast calls for stormy weather . . .
  As part of the MGH's preparation for weather emergencies, employees are encouraged to review the hospital's Severe Weather Conditions Policy.

• DF/HCC earns designation as comprehensive cancer center
  In recognition of the breadth of cancer research conducted by investigators at the MGH, Dana-Farber, BWH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) has been officially designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

• Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards
  Applications for the 2001 Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards now are available for those interested in supplemental funding for research. Sponsored by the Executive Committee on Research and the MGH Office for Women's Careers, the purpose of the awards is to provide funding for junior faculty to sustain research productivity during child-rearing years.

• Partners Physicians Day
  Partners will be hosting the second annual Partners Physicians Day Feb. 3, from 8 am to 5:30 pm at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

• MGH researchers find genetic link for late onset Alzheimer's disease
  MGH researchers have found a region on human chromosome 10 that could harbor a genetic variant that predisposes people to develop late onset Alzheimer's disease.

• MGH wins 2000 Consumer Choice Award
  The National Research Corporation (NRC) recently announced that consumers chose the MGH as the hospital with the highest quality and image in the Boston area. The MGH was one of 122 hospitals to be honored with a Consumer Choice Award.

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