SUMC in the News (10/14/05)
Print media coverage
CNN.com, 10/14/05
Boost your brain power at work
William Dement, the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor and director of
the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, is featured in this article on six ways to
boost your mental capacity.
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/14/05
Stanford scientist awarded Nobel prize
On this day in 1980, Paul Berg, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of
Cancer Research, Emeritus, won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The article also
includes a photo of Berg.
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels, Texas), 10/14/05
Youth fights, beats rare brain disease
This article tells the story of a 10-year old girl battling the rare disease
Moyamoya. The patient was treated by Gary Steinberg, the Bernard and Ronni
Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Professor in Neurosurgery and Neurosciences,
who is quoted here.
Ocean County Observer (Ocean County, N.J.), 10/14/05
Regular screenings best protection from glaucoma
Kuldev Singh, professor of ophthalmology, provides comment in this article on
glaucoma screenings.
Broadcast media coverage
News 8 (Austin, Texas), 10/13/05
This segment reported on the status of a Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
patient and featured Stephen Roth, associate professor of pediatrics. Back in
May, the 2-year-old Modesto girl became the second young child in a year to
receive a Berlin Heart pump at Packard.
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