SUMC in the News (11/03/05)
Print media coverage
Stanford Daily, 11/03/05
Prescription: Watch some 'ER'
Television producer and physician Neal Baer delivered the annual Jonathan J.
King Lecture yesterday. The former executive producer of ER addressed the role
of the doctor who can educate the public about health issues through television.
The lecture was sponsored by the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford
Medical Informatics, and the Health Library.
Fremont Argus, 11/03/05
Stem cell institute pushes on (No online version available)
The oversight committee for the state's stem cell institute met in San Francisco
yesterday. Dean Philip Pizzo serves on the committee.
Wall Street Journal, 11/02/05
The informed patient: Researchers aim to stretch flu-vaccine supply (No online version available)
This article discusses how researchers have been testing a strategy for
extending the supply of flu vaccines - much smaller doses administered just
under the skin, where the cells that serve as the body's barrier to outside
invaders can quickly mount an immune response. Cornelia Dekker, associate
professor of medicine and director of the Stanford vaccine program, and Ann
Arvin, the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of
Microbiology and Immunology, are quoted here.
New York Post, 11/02/05
Pimp my bedroom - Kids wired with TVs, 'net (No online version available)
This article references a study by Stanford and Johns Hopkins University that
found that third-graders with televisions in their bedrooms perform
significantly more poorly on standardized tests than their peers without.
Broadcast media coverage
KGTV-TV (San Diego), 11/02/05
This segment followed up on Camila Gonzalez, the youngest child in the U.S. to
receive a donor's heart while also retaining her original one. She underwent a
procedure called a heterotopic or "piggyback" heart transplant last year at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Daniel Bernstein, the Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics and chief of pediatric cardiology, was interviewed during this segment
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