April 13, 2001 Table of Contents
HOTLINEmast.gif (13932 bytes)  April 13, 2001
  • MGH marathon runners combine heart, hope
    The Boston Marathon has long held mythical status around the world as a pinnacle of athletic accomplishment. Participants run for a variety of reasons: a physical challenge, a mental test of endurance or simply a quest for personal satisfaction. Yet for some MGHers, the marathon represents an opportunity of a different sort — the chance to run on behalf of those who can't. Dozens of MGH employees will run in the 105th Boston Marathon April 16, many raising funds for their own charitable causes.
  • MGH to study acupuncture in treating high blood pressure
    The MGH and the New England Research Institutes have reached a multimillion dollar cooperative agreement with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to conduct a pilot study that will look at the efficacy of the Chinese practice of acupuncture in treating high blood pressure.
  • Project Linus delivers comfort to MGH children
    Linus, the cartoon character made famous by Charles Schultz's Peanuts comic strip, never went anywhere without his beloved blanket. Now, thanks to a dedicated group of Massachusetts women, pediatric patients at the MGH won't have to either. Project Linus is a national nonprofit organization with members who create and deliver handmade blankets to ill and traumatized children around the country. The Greater Boston Chapter brought blankets to MassGeneral Hospital for Children April 7.
  • Talking the talk
    The Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center and the Risk Management Foundation recently hosted a forum to discuss the latest evidence about the difference good communication can make in health outcomes, medical-legal risk and the clinician-patient relationship.

 

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