SUMC in the News (09/07/06)
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Straight from the horse's mouth: Stanford med students praise new class
A new elective course, "Medicine and horses: A communications model for the doctor-patient relationship," is geared toward making medical students more conscious of how they come across when interacting with others.
Print media coverage
San Francisco Chronicle, 09/07/06
Single-payer insurance is a cure for California's ailing health system
A universal health care bill is heading to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk
this week. Spyros Andreopoulos, director emeritus of the Office of Communication
& Public Affairs, expresses support for the legislation in this opinion piece.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 09/07/06
Merck finds no Vioxx lapses: Clears senior managers in development, recall
After a 20-month internal investigation, Merck's board exonerated its senior
managers of knowingly hiding safety information about Vioxx, its recalled pain
reliever. James Fries, professor of medicine, is referenced in this article.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 09/07/06
Med school names interim chief
Ralph Horwitz, medical school dean at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, is coming to Stanford to head the medical school's Department of
Medicine. This news item mentions that an interim chief has been named at Case.
San Jose Mercury News, 09/06/06
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital gets $2 million in gifts for brain tumor
research
Two philanthropic groups have donated $2 million to the Center for Children's
Brain Tumors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Matthew Scott, professor of
developmental biology, genetics, and bioengineering, is quoted in this article.
A similar article appears on BizJournals.com; that one references Scott; Michael
Edwards, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Professor in Pediatric
Neurosurgery and the center's medical director; and Paul Fisher, associate
professor of neurology and neurological sciences and of pediatrics.
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