SUMC in the News (10/13/05)
Print media coverage
Newsweek, 10/17/05
Tip sheet/ Health: Less pain in the E.R. (No online version available)
Bernard Dannenberg, clinical associate professor of surgery, provides comment in
this news brief on receiving pain medication in emergency rooms.
San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/13/05
Agencies' legal brief backs state's stem cell initiative (registration required)
Patient advocates and scientific research institutes filed legal papers
yesterday in support of the state's stem cell initiative, saying court
challenges against Prop. 71 have no legal merit. The article mentions Stanford
among the groups who filed the brief.
News Standard (New York), 10/12/05
Medical marketing needs tighter scrutiny, group says
This article discusses how a personal privacy advocacy organization is calling
for tighter federal regulation of drug-company marketing practices. David
Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment
here.
Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.), 10/12/05
Baby-feeding assumptions lack scientific weight
David Bergman, associate professor of pediatrics, provides comment in this
Associated Press article on baby food myths.
Broadcast media coverage
WTOL-TV (Toledo, Ohio), 10/12/05
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.
KDVR-TV (Denver), 10/12/05
David Bergman discussed baby food myths during this segment. The story also
aired on WTEV-TV (Jacksonville, Fla.).
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