SUMC in the News (09/16/05)
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Los Angeles Times, 09/16/05
Routine
of a class replaces the chaos of Katrina (registration required)
More than 300,000 school-age children have been uprooted from the Gulf Coast,
and school districts across the country are struggling to figure out what to
do with Hurricane Katrina's young evacuees. Victor Carrion, assistant professor
of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the early life stress
research program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, provides comment.
San Francisco Chronicle, 09/16/05
Leukemia society pledges $1 million for areas hit by Hurricane Katrina
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's annual "Light the Night" walk
will raise money for both cancer research and Hurricane Katrina aid. This news
item mentions that the organization funds 281 research grants across the country
- including ones at Stanford.
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