SUMC in the News (12/09/05)

Print media coverage

Los Angeles Times, 12/09/05
Journal slams Vioxx study (registration required)
The New England Journal of Medicine believe researchers funded by Merck understated the health risks of the painkiller Vioxx by withholding adverse data from a 2000 report on the drug. James Fries, professor of medicine, provides comment in this article.

San Francisco Chronicle, 12/09/05
Stanford workers set 1-day strike
A group of Stanford employees, including some from Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, will hold a 1-day strike on Monday..

ABCNews.com, 12/08/05
Breast cancer drug looks more promising
This Associated Press article discusses the effectiveness of the drug Herceptin in the early stages of breast cancer. Robert Carlson, professor of medicine, is quoted here. The story also appears in the Canton Repository (Canton, Ohio), Chicago Sun-Times, Lexington Herald Leader (Lexington, Ky.), Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Lubbock, Texas), San Diego Union-Tribune, Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.), Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.), Tucson Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Ariz.) and Winston Salem Journal (Winston, N.C.).

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12/08/05
Ovarian cancer war must shift to early detection, millionaire says
Sam Gambhir, professor of radiology and director of the molecular imaging program, is mentioned in this article about a man who quit the lucrative computer business to promote ovarian cancer biomarker research.

Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Fla.), 12/08/05
Getting into the zone with fitness-oriented gifts
Shirley Archer, with the Stanford Prevention Research Center, is quoted in this article on fitness-oriented gifts.

Broadcast media coverage

KJCT-TV (Grand Junction, Colo.), 12/09/05
Stanford surgeons have developed a safe and efficient way to use a surgical robot to perform gastric bypass operations. Myriam Curet, associate professor of surgery, was featured in this segment, which also aired on WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge, La.) and WGEM-TV (Hannibal, Mo.).

KPIX-TV, 12/08/05
Thomas Krummel, the Emile Holman Professor, was interviewed during this segment on the Da Vinci system, a robotic, non-invasive system being used in operating rooms.

KGO-TV, 12/08/05
This segment discussed the strike planned for Monday. Similar segments aired on KNTV-TV, KRON-TV, KPIX-TV, KTVU-TV, KGO-AM and KSBW-TV (Monterey).

KPIX-TV, 12/07/05
A 17-year-old girl underwent gastric bypass surgery at Packard yesterday. Craig Albanese, professor of surgery and surgical director for the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard; John Morton, assistant professor of surgery and director of Stanford's bariatric program; and Thomas Robinson, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Healthy Weight, were featured in this segment. A similar segment also aired on KNTV-TV.