SUMC in the News (11/20/06)

Print media coverage

San Jose Mercury News, 11/20/06
Stanford plans huge hospital expansion
This article discusses a plan to rebuild Stanford Hospital in order to meet state mandated seismic safety requirements, as well as create more private rooms for patients. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is also part of the project. Hospital spokesman Anthony Marek is quoted.

Peninsula government watch
Stanford officials will tell the city council this evening about a proposed rebuild of both the adult and children's hospitals.

Portland Oregonian, 11/20/06
A matter of the heart
This article tells the story of a 12-year girl from Oregon who was born with a rare congenital heart defect and will undergo a heart transplant at Packard. Daniel Bernstein, the Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics, provides comment.

Orange County Register, 11/19/06
Are you addicted to the Internet?
In a first-of-its-kind, telephone-based study, Stanford researchers found that more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use. Lead author Elias Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, is quoted in this article. Aboujaoude is also quoted in a Washington Post article that appears in the Crystal Lake Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, Ill.) and Kane County Chronicle (Kane, Ill.). The study was also mentioned in The Hindu (India).

San Francisco Chronicle, 11/18/06
FDA lifts ban on silicone implants
David Kahn is quoted in this article on the FDA lifting its ban on silicone-gel breast implants.

Palo Alto Daily News, 11/18/06
Hospital data barter pushed to lower costs
This article discusses how SHC is one of three area hospitals forming a data exchange that could eventually lower costs for local health care providers and could lead to electronic patient records. Chris Dawes, president and CEO of LPCH, is quoted in this story, which also appears in the Los Gatos Daily News.

San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17/06
Research puzzle: Nonsmokers with lung cancer
Heather Wakelee, assistant professor of medicine, provides comment in this article on recent research that suggests women who don't smoke are two to three times more likely than nonsmoking men to develop lung cancer.

San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, 11/17/06
Voters hand stem cell research a win
This article discusses how stem cell research was a big winner in the recent election. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted.

WebMD.com, 11/17/06
Hormone therapy may improve memory
This article discusses a new study that shows hormone therapy may improve memory and benefit postmenopausal women. Victor Henderson, professor of health research and policy and of neurology and neurological sciences, is quoted.

Broadcast media coverage

KTVU-TV, 11/20/06
The FDA agreed on Friday to make silicone-gel breast implants widely available for the first time in 14 years. David Kahn, clinical assistant professor of surgery, was interviewed during this segment.

KQED-FM, 11/20/06
This segment discussed the hospital's rebuild project. A segment also ran on KRXI-TV (Reno).

WYDO-TV (Greenville, N.C.), 11/18/06
This segment discussed a Stanford study that found RFID technology can help surgeons reduce the loss of tools inside patients. Alex Macario, professor of anesthesia and lead author of the study, was interviewed. The segment also ran on WFTX-TV (Fort Myers, Fla.) and KEVN-TV (Rapid City, S.D.).

KCBS-AM, 11/17/06
Fashion designers are now making 00-sized clothing despite average female body shapes. Rebecka Peebles, instructor in adolescent medicine, discussed how this may cause eating disorders in more young women.

WTGS-TV (Savannah, Ga.), 11/17/06
Ramona Doyle, associate professor of medicine, was interviewed during this segment on pulmonary hypertension. The story also aired on WTVT-TV (Tampa, Fla.).

KXMC-TV (Minot, N.D.), 11/17/06
This segment mentioned the Stanford study on problematic Internet use.