SUMC in the News (10/20/05)
Print media coverage
San Jose Mercury News, 10/20/05
Clinic searching for egg donors (registration required)
South Korea is establishing an international consortium to generate hundreds of
stem cell lines using somatic cell nuclear transfer, and a San Francisco
fertility clinic will recruit local women to provide eggs for the research.
David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Mildred
Cho, associate professor of pediatrics and associate director of the SCBE, are
referenced in this article. The piece also appears in the Contra Costa Times.
Stanford Daily, 10/20/05
Stanford researchers to collect new stem-cell lines
Julie Baker, assistant professor of genetics, and Barry Behr, assistant
professor of obstetrics and gynecology, are teaming up to produce new embryonic
stem cell lines.
Awake as from a pleasant sleep?
In this article, Emmanuel Mignot, associate professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences, discusses sleep and a recent study linking obesity and
sleep deprivation.
Hospital aims ads to attract patients
Stanford Hospital recently launched a $2.5 million advertising campaign that
aims to expand its patient base. Lee Wills, director of marketing and
communications for the hospital, is quoted.
ABCNews.com, 10/19/05
Play dead: Dog diagnosed with narcolepsy
This article on a narcoleptic poodle references Stanford researchers' work with
a group of narcoleptic Dobermans. The Associated Press article also appears on
the websites of numerous newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Dallas Morning
News, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle
Times and Washington Post.
Broadcast media coverage
NBC Nightly News, 10/19/05
This segment discussed technology that allows a woman to freeze her eggs while
she is young and to use them when she's ready to have a baby. David Magnus
provided comment.
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