SUMC in the News (10/03/06)

Print media coverage

New York Times, 10/03/06
2 American 'worm people' win Nobel for RNA work
Andrew Fire, professor of pathology and of genetics, won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on RNA interference. This article discusses his work; similar articles appear in the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Palo Alto Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Stanford Daily, Toronto Star, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post; and on BBCNews.com and TheScientist.com.

Video of Fire's press conference (held at Stanford yesterday morning) is now available at http://med.stanford.edu/news/fire/

Can't keep from shopping? Help could be on the way
A Stanford study has found that nearly as many men as women experience compulsive buying disorder, a condition marked by binge buying and subsequent financial hardship. Lead author Lorrin Koran, emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is quoted here and in the Oakland Tribune; a brief article also appears in the Washington Times.

Associated Press, 10/02/06
Biotech companies already using Nobel-winning technology
The technology at the heart of Monday's Nobel Prize in Medicine spawned a niche biotechnology industry almost as soon as it was discovered in 1997. Andrew Fire is referenced in this article, which appears on the websites of numerous newspapers.

San Jose Mercury News, 10/02/06
Medical 'reps' ban begins
The medical center has adopted a policy aimed at limiting the potential influence of pharmaceutical and other biomedical companies in its day-to-day clinical and educational activities. Philip Pizzo, medical school dean, and Lawrence Shuer, professor of neurosurgery and chief-of-staff at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, are quoted here. The Stanford Daily ran a similar article; Pizzo and David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, are quoted.

Broadcast media coverage

NBC Nightly News, 10/02/06
Nobel Prize recipient Andrew Fire was mentioned during a segment. His award was also discussed during Newshour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) and on segments on KGO-AM KGO-TV, KNTV-TV, KPIX-TV, KRON-TV, KTVU-TV and on TV stations around the country.

 

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