SCBE In The News

February 2004

02/22/04
WOR -710 Radio (New York)

Judy Illes, did a live radio interview with a Dr. Beatrice Engstrand on WOR Studio on Sunday 2/22. There's an audio link on her webpage, www.doctorengstrand.com/.

02/19/04
Faces of Diversity
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Maren Grainger-Monsen is quoted on the AAMC's Diversity page.

02/19/04
If They Could Read Your Mind
Stanford Magazine (January/February 2004)
Judy Illes, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted in this article, which was summarized in yesterday's SUMC in the News.

02/13/04
Stem Cells: Federal Funding Failure
San Jose Mercury News
This editorial on stem cells is co-written by David Magnus, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

02/12/04
KGO-TV

David Magnus, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provided comment on therapeutic cloning. Stanford medical student Cheri Blauwet was also featured in this segment about the potential of stem cell research improving the quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Magnus also appeared on KNTV-TV.

02/12/04
KCBS-AM

David Magnus, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provided comment on therapeutic cloning during this segment. Magnus also appeared on KPIX-TV.

02/12/04
Stunning Leap in Stem-Cell Research
San Jose Mercury News
Researchers in South Korea have produced the first cloned human embryos that have survived long enough to yield all-purpose stem cells that eventually may prove valuable in the treatment of disease. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment. Similar articles, which quote Weissman, appear in the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.), Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, and the Salt Lake City Tribune. Although Stanford is not mentioned, an article on stem cells appears in today's New York Times, and may be of interest to readers.
San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco Chronicle
The Boston Globe
Greenwich Time
The New York Times (registration required)

02/08/04
Healing the Health Care System
Oakland Tribune
David Magnus , co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment on maintaining hospitals at a considerable cost to the environment. The same article appears in the Hayward Daily Review.

02/04/04
Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
Educational Media Reviews Online
Educational Media Reviews gives Worlds Apart, a film by Maren Grainger-Monsen of SCBE their highest rating of highly recommended.

02/04/04
Stanford Report
David Magnus , PhD, associate professor of pediatrics (teaching), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and Case Western University won the Best New Journal award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for the American Journal of Bioethics. Magnus, associate editor of the journal and now co-director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, joined Stanford last summer from Penn's Center for Bioethics, where the journal was founded in 2001.