SUMC in the News (11/14/07)
Press release
New Web site helps patients find Stanford clinical trials more easily
Stanford has launched a comprehensive, publicly accessible database of the clinical trials here and at affiliated facilities.
Print media coverage
San Francisco Chronicle, 11/14/07
Surgeons separate conjoined Costa Rican twins in Palo Alto
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have successfully separated 2-year-old twin girls from Costa Rica who were conjoined at the chest and abdomen. Frank Hanley, the Lawrence Crowley, M.D., Endowed Professor in Child Health; Peter Lorenz, professor of surgery; and Gary Hartman, clinical professor of pediatric surgery, are included in this article. Hartman and Carlos Esquivel, the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor in Pediatric Transplantation, are quoted in articles from the San Jose Mercury News, Palo Alto Daily News and Stanford Daily. Articles on the surgery were also prepared by the Associated Press and Palo Alto Online News.
San Jose Mercury News, 11/14/07
Contribution offers model for new generation
This op-ed praises Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen for their recent gift to Stanford. The couple gave $27.5 million gift to Stanford Hospital & Clinics to build a state-of-the-art Emergency Department. Articles on the gift also appear in the Palo Alto Weekly and Stanford Daily. Paul Auerbach, clinical professor of surgery and director of special projects for emergency medicine, is quoted in the Daily article.
Palo Alto Weekly, 11/14/07
Turning spuds into studs
Joseph Hopkins, clinical professor of medicine, is quoted in this article on getting men to lose weight and start exercising.
Parenting children with health issues
This Stanford Health Library piece discusses resources for parents of children afflicted with a chronic illness. It mentions Packard Children's Kids' Connection, a website designed for children headed to the hospital.
Flu-vaccine volunteers needed
Researchers at Stanford and Packard Children's are looking for adults and children to participate in three studies that will help them better understand how the flu vaccine works in people of different ages.
Boston Globe, 11/12/07
Contagious cancers
Viruses contribute to more than a dozen malignancies and may cause 15 percent of the cancer cases worldwide each year. Julie Parsonnet, the George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine, provides comment in this article.
Broadcast media coverage
KGO-TV, 11/13/07
Gary Hartman and Carlos Esquivel were featured in this segment on the conjoined twins' surgery. Segments on the surgery also aired locally on KNTV-TV, KPIX-TV, KTVU-TV and KGO-AM and on KRXI-TV (Reno, Nev.); Jodi Coombs, director of the inpatient heart center, was interviewed for the KTVU-TV piece.
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