• Honoring compassionate care: Conference center dedicated to Schiff
  The many contributions of an esteemed MGH physician and two committed friends of the hospital were celebrated May 11 as guests gathered to mark the dedication of the Isaac Schiff Conference Center on the fourth floor of the Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care.
  

• New class of drugs may treat lung tumors resistant to Iressa and Tarceva
  A new class of drugs that block the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on lung cancer cells may avoid the problem of resistance to the targeted therapy drugs Iressa and Tarceva. In a report issued on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) website, researchers from the MGH Cancer Center describe finding how drugs called irreversible EGFR inhibitors apparently avoid resistance and may offer patients longer term remission.
  

• Grant to MGH researcher supports minority scientists
  Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, a researcher in the MGH Infectious Disease Unit and the Partners AIDS Research Center (PARC), recently received a grant of $100,000 to support the work of minority junior scientists in his lab.
  

• MGH hosts neurofibromatosis symposium
  The MGH, along with the New England Chapter of the Children's Tumor Foundation, hosted a medical symposium May 15 at CNY for people affected by neurofibromatosis (NF) and their families.

• Clinical collaboration with Mount Kisco Medical Group
  The MGH and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) announced this week an agreement that will extend the expertise, care and services of the MGH to patients of Mount Kisco Medical Group (MKMG), located in the Hudson Valley in southern New York.
  

• Hand hygiene helps keep patients healthy
  The results are in for the first-quarter of the 2005 MGH Hand Hygiene Clean Sweepstakes contest, and 10 patient care units have met the first-quarter goal. Ellison 4, Ellison 9, Ellison 14, Ellison 18, White 11, Bigelow 9, Bigelow 11, Blake 6, Yawkey 8 and the Dialysis Unit are all being recognized for achieving a compliance rate of 50 percent before patient contact and 80 percent after patient contact for hand hygiene.
  

• MGH introduces barcoded wristbands
  Beginning June 1, the MGH will introduce a new patient wristband as part of an important quality and safety initiative. The all-white bands, which feature barcoding capabilities, are specifically designed for ease of reading. The new barcoding feature will allow staff to scan a patient's wristband to electronically store the medical record number with improved accuracy. The bands will replace the red and blue bands the hospital currently uses.
  

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