Stepping to
an Irish tune Irish step dancers performed in the Main
Corridor at the MGH's St. Patrick's Day celebration March 17.
Hospital announces
budget management plan Financial performance at the MGH from October
through December 1998 was approximately $15 million behind budget. As a result, the
hospital is taking steps to bring expenses and revenues back into line.
The MGH
heads ventilator study A large clinical trial of mechanical
ventilator use for intensive care patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
has been stopped early so that critical care specialists around the country can be alerted
to the study's successful results.
A leader of the
community and beyond Thomas S. Durant, MD, assistant director of the
MGH, recently received the Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community
and Justice (NCCJ) at the organization's 71st annual dinner March 10 in Boston.
AIDS
researchers receive Glaser Awards Two members of the Partners AIDS Research
Center, based at the MGH, were honored last month by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation. Paul Johnson, MD, and Philip Goulder, MRCP, DPhil, were among four recipients
of the 1999 Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Awards, the only named research awards specifically
for work in pediatric HIV/AIDS.
A DIALOGUE about
complementary medicine Henry Mankin, MD, former chief of Orthopædic
Surgery, James McIntyre, MD, MGH Radiation Oncology, Donna Greenberg, MD, MGH Psychiatry,
and Paul Richardson, MD, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discussed the pros and
cons of complementary medicine with patients, family and others from the MGH community
March 16 in the Walcott Conference Room.
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