SUMC in the News (09/23/05)
Print media coverage
San Francisco Chronicle, 09/23/05
Kids' backpacks are a weighty subject
Therapists at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital weighed a number of students
and their backpacks and offered tips on backpack safety.
Contra Costa Times, 09/23/05
Doubts surround bioterror defense (registration required)
This article discusses the efforts to develop countermeasures of biological
agents. David Relman, associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and
immunology, is quoted. Relman is on the National Science Advisory Board for
Biosecurity.
Irish Examiner (Ireland), 09/23/05
Woman has quads without fertility drugs (No online version available)
A San Mateo woman gave birth to quadruplets at Packard Wednesday. The babies
were conceived without the use of fertility drugs - a "one-in-a-million" occurrence. James Smith, clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is quoted.
Washington Post, 09/22/05
Search for organ transplants becomes a web free-for-all (registration required)
David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted
in this article on internet organ matching.
USNews.com, 09/22/05
A blood test for epilepsy
Robert Fisher, the Maslah Saul, M.D. Endowed Professor and director of the
epilepsy center at Stanford, is quoted in this article about a blood test that
could help doctors differentiate between some types of epileptic seizures and
conditions that imitate epilepsy.
Broadcast media coverage
KTVU-TV, 09/22/05
This segment discussed the rare quadruplet birth. The story also aired on
KDAF-TV (Dallas) and KEYT-TV (Santa Barbara).
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