MSK Listed Among the 50 Greenest Hospitals in America

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New York may be heading into winter but things are looking pretty green here at MSK! Last month Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was included in Becker’s Hospital Review list of the 50 Greenest Hospitals in America.  We’re also a Practice Greenhealth Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award honoree for 2015 and a member of Practice Greenhealth’s Greening the OR, Healthy Food, Climate and Green Building Circles of Excellence. That’s a lot of honors!

We’ve all heard the the R’s of being green; Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.  Hospitals have a unique challenge to creating a sustainability program. Due to the nature of healthcare, there are a lot of items we just can’t reuse or recycle in order to do our part for the planet. Certain tools must be single use and some electronic devices need to be on 24 hours a day.  We’ve had to find the places where we can make a changes without sacrificing our high quality services.  MSK is increasing the efficiency of heating and lighting, serving local produce in the cafeteria, and reducing waste. Our new facilities are built with an eye on the LEED certification from the US Green Building Council.  Here at the library we are working on revamping our printing system to reduce accidental and unwanted print jobs. Continue reading →

Tips to Find and Post Comments on a Paper of Interest

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Have you ever found a really great article and want to know what others are saying about it? Do you ever feel like posting a comment about an article for others to see? Perhaps you just want to know what people are saying about your own published work? If these questions spark your interest then you might want to check out PubMed Commons and PubPeer.

PubMed Commons offers users the ability to view and post comments on publications in the PubMed database. It’s a space of scientific discourse and a forum for sharing opinions on a work. Any PubMed user can view the comments directly from the database but in order to post new comments, users must have a MyNCBI account and at least one authored work in PubMed. Their Getting Started page details the eligibility requirements.

PubPeer offers a different level of service when it comes to user comments. It acts as an online journal club of scholarly works. Users can search for articles by PMID, DOI, arXiv ID, keyword, author, etc. If a comment on the retrieved article exists, it will appear in the search results. Commenting on articles is also possible in PubPeer, although there is little restriction on who can contribute. See their How To page for details.

Congratulations, Partnership, Drug Costs, and MSK Publications

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While browsing the news, these are some of the stories that rose to the top!

  • Avera Cancer Institute joins the Worldwide Innovation Network (WIN Consortium) focused on personalized cancer care.  Other members include MSK, as well as, New York University Langone Medical Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center.