SUMC in the News (11/28/07)
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Palo Alto Daily News, 11/28/07
Council OKs zone change for Stanford expansions
The Palo Alto City Council has voted to initiate zoning changes to accommodate the medical center's expansion proposal. Martha Marsh, president and CEO of Stanford Hospital & Clinics, is quoted in this article. A Palo Alto Online News article quotes Marsh and Daniel Bernstein, the Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics and chief of pediatric cardiology; articles on an independent consultant's view of the expansion project also appear in the Palo Alto Daily News and on the San Jose Mercury News' website.
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa), 11/28/07
Peers provide insight on living with diseases
This article discusses a program that teaches self-management skills to people living with chronic illnesses. Kate Lorig, professor of medicine, created the program and is quoted here.
Bakersfield Californian, 11/27/07
Hey, fatso, go take a walk
Stanford researchers have found that the use of a pedometer - a small, inexpensive device that counts the number of steps walked per day - is associated with significant increases in physical activity and weight loss and improvements in blood pressure. This editorial discusses the study and encourages readers to use pedometers.
Victory for science
Researchers from Wisconsin and Japan have reprogrammed adult human cells to act like embryonic stem cells, a discovery that researchers are calling a big step toward new therapies for disease. This editorial discusses the development and mentions research being done at Stanford.
ScienceNow Daily News, 11/26/07
Transplants with tears
Stanford researchers have found a way to transplant new blood-forming stem cells into the bone marrow of mice, effectively replacing their immune systems. Irving Weissman, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation and director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and Deepta Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral scholar in Weissman's lab, are referenced in this article. The study is also mentioned in a PopularMechanics.com article.
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