SUMC in the News (09/08/06)
Print media coverage
San Jose Mercury News, 09/08/06
Stanford employees agree to new labor contract
A group of Stanford employees, including some from the medical school, averted a
possible strike by overwhelmingly approving a new labor contract with the
university.
The Rebel Yell (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), 09/07/06
Living the stressful life
The American workforce logs more hours than any other in the industrialized
world. Robert Sapolsky, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor, is quoted in
this article on chronic stress.
Healthline.com, 09/06/06
A stingray wound to the heart
Paul Auerbach, clinical professor of surgery, is author of a blog on wilderness
medicine. In this entry, he discusses the recent death of Steve Irwin. Irwin,
known as the Crocodile Hunter, was recently killed by a stingray wound to his
heart.
Broadcast media coverage
KNTV-TV, 09/07/06
Christopher Scott, executive director of the Program on Stem Cells and Society
in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, commented in this segment on a new
technique of creating a stem cell line without killing embryos.
KPCC-FM (Los Angeles), 09/07/06
This live program discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. Guest David Spiegel, the Jack, Samuel and Lulu Willson Professor in Medicine, weighed in on why people lock on to certain theories. He also discussed an Internet-based survey he conducted on people's reactions to the terrorist attacks.
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