SUMC in the News (08/30/07)
Print media coverage
San Francisco Chronicle, 08/30/07
False promise of state-sponsored health care
In this opinion piece, Spyros Andreopoulos, director emeritus of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, discusses the need for national health-care reform.
Palo Alto Daily News, 08/30/07
Smooth snuffing-out anticipated at Stanford
As of September 1, the School of Medicine will be declared a tobacco-free zone, with no smoking allowed anywhere on campus. Ruthann Richter of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, provides comment in this article.
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), 08/29/07
Kids' taste runs to brands they know best
Asked to sample two identical foods from McDonald's, children in a Stanford/Packard Children's study preferred the taste of the version branded with the restaurant's familiar "Golden Arches" to one extracted from unmarked paper packaging. The study was led by Thomas Robinson, associate professor of pediatrics and of medicine and director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard Children's, who is quoted in this Los Angeles Times article. Robinson is also quoted in the Daily Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.).
Broadcast media coverage
KXAS-TV (Dallas), 08/30/07
Twenty gastric bypass surgeries have been performed at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. This segment, which originally appeared on KNTV-TV, told the story of one bypass patient and featured Sanjeev Dutta, assistant professor of surgery with Packard Children's.
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