SUMC in the News (11/16/05)
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Antidepressants potentially misused in treating adolescents, Stanford study finds
Stanford researchers have found that, despite clinical guidelines calling for
depressed adolescents to be treated with a combination of psychotherapy and
medication, antidepressants began supplanting - rather than complementing - the
role of mental health counseling between 1995 and 2002.
Print media coverage
San Francisco Chronicle, 11/16/05
More care not always better, study says
According to a new study, California hospitals vary greatly in how much they
spend to care for Medicare patients in the last two years of their lives - and
higher outlays do not lead to improved quality. Laurence Baker, associate
professor of health research and policy and one of the study authors, is quoted
here and in the Los Angeles Times.
San Jose Mercury News, 11/16/05
Psychotherapy for teens has fallen out of fashion
This article discusses the Stanford study on the use of antidepressants to treat
depressed adolescents. Jun Ma, research associate at the Stanford Prevention
Research Center and lead author of the study, and Randall Stafford, associate
professor of medicine at the SPRC, are included.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 11/16/05
Scrambled eggs
South Korea is establishing an international consortium to generate hundreds of
stem cell lines using somatic cell nuclear transfer. This article discusses the
ethical issues surrounding this plan and quotes David Magnus, director of the
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Mildred Cho, associate professor of
pediatrics and associate director of the SCBE.
San Mateo Daily Journal, 11/16/05
City excited but cautious over Stanford expansion
This article discusses Stanford Hospital's plans to open an outpatient center in
Redwood City; Andrea Smith, hospital spokesperson, is quoted. Smith and Larry
Carr, director of government relations at the hospital, are also quoted in an
article in the Oakland Tribune and San Mateo County Times.
Associated Press, 11/16/05
Study questions health effects of decaf coffee
A study analyzed the effects of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption
on cardiovascular risk factors. An Atlanta researcher conducted the research
while at Stanford.
San Jose Mercury News, 11/15/05
Getting mammogram shouldn't be blind ritual
Robert Carlson, professor of medicine, provides comment in this piece on
mammograms.
Reuters, 11/14/05
Most with heart risk don't use aspirin: study
A new Stanford study shows that aspirin therapy is being used by fewer than
one-third of the U.S. outpatients who would benefit from it. Study author
Randall Stafford is quoted here.
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