SUMC in the News (10/31/07)
Press release
Bone marrow transplant patients will gather at Stanford Nov. 2 to mark life-saving program's 20-year anniversary
Stanford's BMT program will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Nov. 2. The program, housed in the Stanford Cancer Center and Stanford Hospital, has performed more than 3,400 transplants.
Print media coverage
Palo Alto Weekly, 10/31/07
Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg, professor emeritus of biochemistry and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize, died Oct. 26 at Stanford Hospital. Among the survivors is son Roger Kornberg, the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine.
Billings Gazette (Billings, Mon.), 10/31/07
Stem cell expert to give talk
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, will be the featured speaker Friday at a conference on biomedicine in Montana.
Stanford Daily, 10/31/07
Hospital newsletter engages community
Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the School of Medicine published an eight-page newsletter that was mailed to area residents last week. Ruthann Richter, with the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, provides comment in this article.
Smoke screen
This op-ed discusses the medical school's smoking ban.
Broadcast media coverage
KGO-AM, 10/30/07
A Stanford discovery about the genetics of coat color in dogs could help explain why humans come in different weights and vary in our abilities to cope with stress. This segment discussed the study; an article on the research, quoting genetics professor Greg Barsh and postdoctoral scholar Sophie Candille, also appears on KNTV-TV's website.
KBAK-TV (Bakersfield, Calif.), 10/30/07
Parents are concerned with a graphic video game called Manhunt 2. Thomas Robinson, the Irving Schulman, M.D. Endowed Professor in Child Health, was featured in this segment, which also aired on TV stations in Champaign, Ill.; Charleston, S.C.; Dallas; Green Bay, Wis.; Kansas City, Mo. and Santa Barbara, Calif.
Office of Communication