SUMC in the News (10/09/06)

Print media coverage

Time, 10/16/06
Wild and crazy Nobel guys
This article mentions recent Nobel Prize winners Andrew Fire, professor of pathology and of genetics, and Roger Kornberg, the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine. The scientists were also written about in a Chronicle of Higher Education article, a small Washington Post piece and an Associated Presspiece on the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. (That article appears on the websites of newspapers across the country.) An opinion piece in the Oakland Tribune mentions the winners and discusses the strength of science in the Bay Area, and opinion pieces in the Boston Herald and Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.) focus on the work of Kornberg.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas), 10/09/06
Both genders can be compulsive shoppers
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, and Elias Aboujaoude, director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are mentioned here. Koran is also quoted in a Newsday article that appears in the Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) and Jackson Hole Star Tribune (Jackson, Wy.). A San Jose Mercury News article also appears in the Bergen County Record(Bergen County, N.J.) and Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, Mo.).

Los Angeles Times, 10/08/06
Lulled to sleep at 60 to 80 beats?
This article discusses the use of music therapy to treat insomnia. William Dement, the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor, is quoted here.

Contra Costa Times, 10/08/06
Need care, will travel
Alain Enthoven, a senior fellow at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, is quoted in this article on the rising popularity of medical tourism.

New York Times, 10/07/06
Producers agree to send healthier foods to schools
In an effort to fight the rise in childhood obesity, five of the country's largest snack food producers said they would start providing more nutritious foods to schools. Thomas Robinson, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, provides comment in this article, which also appears in the Gadsden Times (Gadsden, Ala.).

San Jose Mercury News, 10/07/06
Gift enhances campus arts
Longtime Stanford University benefactors Helen and Peter Bing are contributing $50 million for construction of a 900-seat concert hall. This article mentions that Helen Bing is on the committee that selects and donates art displayed in the rooms and corridors of Stanford Hospital and Packard.

Broadcast media coverage

KTVU-TV, 10/09/06
Nobel Prize winners Andrew Fire and Roger Kornberg were referenced during a segment on the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

KRON-TV, 10/07/06
This segment discussed compulsive buying disorder and mentioned Stanford research on the disease. A WCBS-TV (New York) segment also discussed the recent Stanford study that found that nearly as many men as women experience the condition.

Talk of the Nation (NPR), 10/06/06
Andrew Fire was interviewed during this program - along with two fellow Nobel Prize winners and David Bushnell, a research associate in Roger Kornberg's lab.