SUMC in the News (12/11/06)

Print media coverage

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas), 12/11/06
Shoes to prevent arthritis are tested
This Washington Post article discusses a shoe manufactured by Nike for a Stanford study aimed at thwarting the onset of arthritis in the knee. Tom Andriacchi, professor of mechanical engineering and of orthopedic surgery, is quoted.

Palo Alto Daily News, 12/11/06
Tiffany & Co. celebrates 10th anniversary at Stanford (scroll down)
Tiffany & Co. celebrated the newly designed store and its 10th anniversary at Stanford Shopping Center with a cocktail reception honoring the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Reuters, 12/10/06
Laureates accept prizes in pomp-filled ceremony
The 2006 Nobel Prizes were presented Sunday at an award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Andrew Fire, professor of pathology and of genetics received the Nobel prize in Medicine, and Roger Kornberg, the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine received the Nobel prize in Chemistry. The awards were also mentioned in the International Herald Tribune.

San Francisco Chronicle, 12/10/06
Hooked on the web
This article discusses Internet addiction disorder and quotes Elias Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic. Recently, Stanford researchers, led by Aboujaoude, found that more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use.

Monterey County Herald, 12/10/06
Just for kids
Dana Weintraub, clinical instructor of pediatrics, provides comment in this article on gyms designed for kids.

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.), 12/10/06
Organ transplant required bonding
The ethical issues associated with the growing trend of people donating organs to patients whom they don't know are discussed in this article. John Scandling, professor of medicine and director of the adult kidney and pancreas transplant program, and David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provide comment in this story, which originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News.

Gainesville Sun (Gainesville, Fla.), 12/10/06
10 to interview for UF dean post
This article mentions that Robert Robbins, professor and chair of cardiothoracic surgery, is one of ten candidates who will interview in mid-January for the position of dean of the University of Florida College of Medicne.

Washington Times, 12/09/06
Eating disorder web sites not harmless (scroll down)
This United Press International article discusses a new Stanford/Packard survery that found many teens with eating disorders visit Web sites promoting eating disorders, where they can learn new weight loss and purging methods. Rebecka Peebles, instructor in adolescent medicine and lead author, is quoted.

Baltimore Sun, 12/08/06
Mummy may be part of UM collection
This article reports on a controversy concerning the provenance of a mummified cadaver of a child, which was being auctioned on eBay. The mummy is suspected to be from a collection of medical mummies dating from the early 1800s - the Burns collection - housed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted.

Broadcast media coverage

WJBK-TV (Detroit), 12/08/06
This segment discussed the Stanford/Packard study on pro-anorexia web sites. Similar segments aired on KATU-TV (Portland, Ore.) and WTGS-TV (Savannah, Ga.).

WDRB-TV (Louisville, Ky.), 12/08/06
This segment mentioned a Stanford study that found RFID technology can help surgeons reduce the loss of tools inside patients.