SUMC in the News (09/05/07)

Press release

Young Stanford doc's second medical thriller hits bookshelves
Recent medical school graduate and first-year intern Joshua Spanogle has written a second medical thriller, Flawless, which hit bookstores last month.

Print media coverage

USA Today, 09/05/07
Fix healthcare by making Americans care about costs
Kate Bundorf, assistant professor of health research and policy, is referenced in this piece on the costs of healthcare.

Oakland Tribune, 09/05/07
Stanford X-ray exhibit takes an inner look at terrorism
"Inside Terrorism: The X-Ray Project" opened at the medical school yesterday. The exhibit features a collection of X-rays and CT scans of people who were victims of terrorism. Victor Carrion, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Elizabeth Zambricki, a third-year medical student, are quoted in this story, which also appears in the Chico Enterprise Record (Chico, Calif.), Palo Alto Daily News and San Mateo County Times.

Glens Falls Post-Star (Glens Falls, N.Y.), 09/05/07
Familiar labels influence children
Asked to sample two identical foods from McDonald's, children in a Stanford/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 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 a New York Times article that appears in the Straits Times (Singapore).

United Press International, 09/04/07
Study: Mast cells have a good side
Stanford researchers have found that a blood cell known as a troublemaker for triggering the itch and inflammation in allergy attacks, the mast cell, can also calm down the flare-ups. Stephen Galli, professor and chair of pathology, is referenced in this article, which also appears in the Post Chronicle (Denville, N.J.).

WebMD.com, 09/04/07
Sleep labs: Rx for better shut-eye
Clete Kushida, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research, provides comment in this article on the benefits of an overnight stay at a sleep disorder lab.

MSNBC.com, 09/04/07
Hope for cancer survivors who want children
This article, an online companion to a segment on yesterday's Today Show, discusses options for cancer patients facing infertility issues. It references Stanford's egg-freezing program.

Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.), 09/04/07
The business of prescription drugs
This article, which originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times, discusses the effect of drug makers' marketing efforts. A number of medical centers and academic institutions, including Stanford, have banned students, faculty and medical staff from accepting gifts from pharmaceutical companies.

Broadcast media coverage

KGO-TV, 09/04/07
An estimated 20,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area are infected with hepatitis B. Samuel So, the Lui Hac Minh Professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Asian Liver Center, discussed the disease and its prevalence among the Asian American population during this segment.