SUMC in the News (12/14/06)

Press release

Caring for Carcinoid Foundation gives grant to Stanford researcher
Seung Kim, associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation.

Print media coverage

Newsweek, 12/18/06
Health: Sites walk a thin line
This article discusses a new Stanford/Packard survey 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 in this story

San Francisco Chronicle, 12/14/06
Norovirus - awful, common and contagious
Lucy Tompkins, the Lucy Becker Professor in Medicine, provides comment in this article on norovirus, the second-most common illness in the U.S.

Louisville Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), 12/14/06
Tangled in the web
This Washington Post article discusses a recent study on Internet addiction in which Stanford researchers that found more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use. Elias Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, is quoted.

San Jose Mercury News, 12/13/06e
Q&A: Andy Grove
Andy Grove, co-founder and former CEO of Intel Corp., discusses health care in this Q&A. He discussed the role of technology in health care at the annual Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, Lecture last month.

Menlo Park Almanac, 12/13/06
Healthy holidays: Tips on how to avoid weight gain, unhealthful eating during the season of parties and dinner celebrations
This article discusses ways to maintain a healthy weight during the holiday season. Joyce Hanna, with the Stanford Prevention Research Center, provides comment.

'Super foods': Eat more, not less
Joyce Hanna lists foods to include in your diet that will help reduce your risk for disease.

News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), 12/13/06
New in paperback
This short book review that originally ran in the New York Times discusses "Monkeyluv: And Other Essays On Our Lives as Animals," by Robert Sapolsky, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences.

USA Weekend, 12/10/06
Smart tips for better living (scroll down)
This brief item discusses how recent Stanford research indicates there's no evidence to support a need for dietary deprivation among heartburn patients. Lauren Gerson, assistant professor of medicine, is quoted.

Broadcast media coverage

KCBS-AM, 12/14/06
Gary Steinberg, the Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Professor in Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, was interviewed in this segment that reported on the surgery undergone by Senator Tim Johnson for an arteriovenous malformation, a congenital condition.

WNYW-TV (New York, N.Y.), 12/13/06
This segment reports on an opinion piece in the latest issue of Vanity Fair in which Christopher Hitchens refers to a study by Allan Reiss about how humor is processed differently by men and women. Reiss is the Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research.

KTVU-TV, 12/12/06
This segment focused on a recent Stanford study that discovered a molecule that may hold the key to understanding and eventually treating Alzheimer's disease. Tony Wyss-Coray, associate professor of neurology and lead author, was interviewed.