SUMC in the News (12/22/06)
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The year ahead: Stanford experts forecast trends to watch in 2007
Bird flu, stem cells and climate change, along with hormone therapy, health care
for kids, and laboratory-grown organs tailored to the individual are some of the
issues considered by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers in this
quick look at the year ahead. Also pondered: how the growing masses of genetic
data may reveal unsuspected links among supposedly disparate diseases, and the
potential that creates for new cures.
Print media coverage
Forbes.com, 12/21/06
Brain is not wired for consistency
This HealthDay article discusses a Stanford study that found practice will never
make perfect because the brain is simply not wired for that kind of perfection -
neurons have to start from scratch. Krishna Shenoy, assistant professor of
electrical engineering and of neuroscience, led the research and is quoted in
this story, which also appears in the Grand Junction Sentinel (Grand Junction,
Colo.), Greenville Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) and Springfield News-Sun
(Springfield, Ohio). United Press International also had a short article on the
study.
Palo Alto Daily News, 12/21/06
Damaged lungs, lot of heart
This article tells the story of a former football player with lung cancer,
waiting for a transplant at Stanford. An exercise program for cancer patients
designed by Stanford is also mentioned here.
Broadcast media coverage
KTVB-TV (Boise, Idaho), 12/21/06
This segment discussed a Stanford study that found practice will never make
perfect because the brain isn't wired for that kind of consistency. Similar
segments aired on CFCN-TV (Calgary, Canada) and KSL-TV (Salt Lake City).
WPSD-TV (Paducah, Ky.), 12/21/06
Marcia Stefanick, professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research
Center, was featured in this segment on the role of fat in disease.
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