SUMC in the News (10/11/07)
Print media coverage
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/11/07
New project studies neuroscience and the law (No online version available)
This article discusses the Law and Neuroscience Project, a first-of-its-kind project which aims to bring together law and the emerging field of neuroscience to help determine how courts should deal with questions relating to issues such as guilt and innocence, punishment, bias and truth-telling. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment.
Stanford Daily, 10/11/07
Trustees talk Redwood City campus
Members of the Board of Trustees reviewed six plans for the new North Campus in Redwood City. The space will be used for administrative offices and medical center outpatient facilities.
San Jose Mercury News, 10/10/07
Kids often receive poor health care despite good insurance coverage
Children only get about half the recommended treatment for common medical problems such as asthma and obesity, potentially leading them toward an unhealthy adulthood, according to researchers at the University of Washington-Seattle. Paul Wise, the Richard E. Behrman Professor in Child Health and Professor, provides comment in this article.
Palo Alto Weekly, 10/10/07
Step it UP
This article discusses "Step It UP," a 10,000-steps-per-day walking program offered in collaboration with the Stanford Health Improvement Program to measure progress and nutritional information. Candace Mindigo, a registered nurse and director for Partners in Caring at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, and Julie Anderson, health educator at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, are quoted.
Health notes/Nurses' strike
A 13-hospital strike by nurses at Sutter Health hospitals began yesterday. This brief item mentions that Stanford nurses belong to a different union and would not join the strike.
Osteoporosis
This Stanford Health Library piece discusses osteoporosis and the available resources for patients and family members.
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