SUMC in the News (10/28/05)

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Stanford Q&A: Caring for the victims of Hurricane Katrina
In this Q&A, Samuel LeBaron, professor of family medicine, discusses his experience caring for Hurricane Katrina victims. LeBaron returned on Oct. 21 from doing a week of health-care relief in Mississippi with six Stanford medical students.

Print media coverage

Reuters, 10/28/05
Is US becoming hostile to science?
This article discusses the tense relationship between the scientific community and the Bush administration. An excerpt from Dean Philip Pizzo's newsletter is referenced. The story also appears on ABCNews.com and the New York Times.

The Scientist, 10/26/05
Thomas Butler loses appeal (registration required)
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and prison sentence of former Texas Tech professor Thomas Butler for illegally shipping plague samples and for defrauding the university in unrelated consulting for drug companies. Stanley Falkow, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research, provides comment in this article.

Broadcast media coverage

KPIX-TV, 10/27/05
Thomas Krummel, the Emile Holman Professor, was interviewed during this segment on the Da Vinci system, a robotic, non-invasive system being used in operating rooms.

 

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