• Celebrating little lives saved
  Healthy children are born every day at the MGH with relative ease, but sometimes infants enter this world in distress and require the extra help of modern technology, coupled with the life-saving skills of MGH staff. One of the inventions that helps save full-term newborn patients whose heart or lungs are failing is ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) therapy.

• New computer model supports the importance of annual mammograms
  The fact that a woman has had a mammogram "within the past few years" is not sufficient to protect her from breast cancer, says a group of MGH researchers. In a study published in the August issue of Radiology, the investigators show that the interval between mammograms may be the most critical factor for reducing the breast cancer death rate.

• Continuing a tradition of teaching
  The MGH is well known for teaching the next generation of physicians and other health care professionals. This summer, the MGH Human Resources Department gave college students an opportunity to learn about the administrative functions of a major hospital through a new internship program.

• MGH Revere HealthCare Center hosts awards ceremony
  As a founding member of the Revere CARES (Community Awareness, Resources and Education to prevent Substance abuse) coalition, the MGH Revere HealthCare Center sponsored a special awards ceremony to recognize organizations that help reduce alcohol and drug abuse among Revere youth.

• MGH Payroll works around the clock
  The MGH Payroll Department has been working diligently to process employee paychecks in spite of malfunctioning equipment.

• Partners physicians play ball
  A group of 17 physicians from the MGH and BWH had the opportunity to fulfill their childhood dreams Aug. 6, when they played ball in Fenway Park.

• "Wreath of Healing" adorns the MGH Cancer Resource Room
  Twice a cancer survivor, Janice Frishkopf, a volunteer for the MGH Network for Patients and Families, knows what hope and spirit are all about. Frishkopf is the designer of the "Wreath of Healing" poster that is being sold in the Cancer Resource Room on Cox 1.

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