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@umassmed magazine: The PURCH track for medical students reaches out to the community—to help, but also to learn.

BusinessWest: Dr. Matthew Sadof, pediatrician at Baystate Children's Hospital and Healthcare Hero, tries to practice tikkun olam—healing the world.

BusinessWest:  Dr. Peter A. DePergola II, Director of Clinical Ethics, has been nominated Healthcare Hero: Emerging Leader.  He explores the hard questions in medicine—what's possible, what's allowed, and what's good.

MassLive: Over 1,000 participants are now registered with Rays of Hope research registry, a confidential depository of information related to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other breast problems.

Healthcare News: Baystate receives $1 million from efforts of Western Mass legislative delegation to provide financial support for costs associated in offering innovative educational track called PURCH (Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health).  PURCH was created in response to an ongoing shortage of physicians, particularly primary-care doctors.

MassLive:  Dr. Aaron Kugelmass discusses heart disease and stroke and the procedures now done at the Davis Family Heart and Vascular Center.  The leading the cause of death in the country, heart disease death rates have declined in Massachusetts.

MassLive:  Dr. Keroack supported the proposal for "syringe services programs" brought before the Public Health Council in favor of a needle exchange program.  Admitting it is not a cure-all to the drug crisis, these programs offer opportunities for treatment programs, supply Naxolone for overdose treatment, and in the end are cost effective by reducing transmission of blood-borne diseases.

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Dr. Grace Makari-Judson, Co-Director, Rays of Hope Center for Breast Cancer Research Chair, contributed to a column on risks for breast cancer with birth control

Death from opioid overdose is a a national and regional crisis. A public forum to discuss evidence-based ways to reduce deaths from opioid overdose took place before a standing-room only crowd at Baystate Medical Center on November 30, 2017.

The successful fundraising efforts of this year’s Rays of Hope – Walk & Run Toward the Cure of Breast Cancer will once again support breast cancer research in the Pioneer Valley.