SUMC in the News (10/18/06)
Press releases
Stanford Q&A: Douglas Owens on HIV/AIDS screening
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced new
voluntary guidelines recommending that all Americans ages 13 to 64 be screened
for HIV. The new guidelines were influenced by research published last year, led
by Douglas Owens, professor of medicine and a senior investigator at the
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
Volunteers needed for sleep study of potential alternative to Ambien
Jed Black, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is lead
investigator of an 18-month pilot study on the effects of sodium oxybate a drug that treats narcolepsy in treating insomnia.
Print media coverage
Orange County Register, 10/18/06
One in eight addicted to Internet study says
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. This article discusses the study, which was led by
Elias Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral
sciences and director of Stanford's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic. A Reuters
article quoting Aboujaoude appears on numerous websites, including MSNBC.com,
ScientificAmerican.com and New York Times' website; pieces also appear on
ABCNews.com, BBCNews.com and blogs from the Philadelphia Inquirer and St. Louis
Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Mo.). United Press International also prepared an
article.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Mo.), 10/18/06
Doctors cautious about prescribing new drugs, study finds
A new study shows that physicians are slow to prescribe new, potentially
beneficial drugs and quick to drop them if negative news appears about the drugs. Randall Stafford, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, provides comment in this article.
Yale Daily News, 10/18/06
Student theses a unique tradition
This article on medical school theses mentions that a handful of schools offer
their students areas of concentration as a way to bring individual choice to
medical education. Stanford is one such school.
San Jose Mercury News, 10/17/06
People on the move
Timothy Carmack has been named chief financial officer at Lucile Packard
Children's Hospital.
Eagle Tribune (North Andover, Mass.), 10/17/06
Stent sales hurt by blood-clot concerns
Boston Scientific Corp. and Johnson & Johnson are losing sales of drug-coated stents because doctors are concerned the devices raise the risk of blood clots. Cynthia Yock, research associate in the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, is referenced in this article.
Biz Journals.com, 10/16/06
Twelve California hospitals rank high on Leapfrog quality rankings
Twelve California hospitals, including Packard, were included in Leapfrog
Group's list of the nation's top hospitals. Leapfrog Group is a health-care
safety and quality coalition supported by many of the nation's largest
corporations.
Broadcast media coverage
CNN, 10/18/06
This segment discussed the Stanford study on problematic Internet use. Similar
segments aired locally on KNTV-TV, KPIX-TV and KTVU-TV and on TV stations across
the country, including ones in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York,
Sacramento, Seattle and Washington DC
.World News Now (ABC), 10/17/06
An increasing amount of Americans are going to store-based medical clinics, such as Wal-Mart, for doctor's appointments. Alan Garber, the Henry J. Kaiser Junior Professor, was interviewed during this segment.
CNN, 10/17/06
William Hurlbut, consulting professor of neurology, discussed embryonic stem
cell research during this segment.
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