SUMC in the News (09/18/07)
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India's former president visits Stanford to discuss emergency medical project
The recently retired president of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, will visit the School of Medicine today to discuss his country’s collaboration with the medical school to help build India’s first 911-type emergency response system.
Print media coverage
Seattle Times, 09/18/07
No decision yet whether gene therapy caused death
This article discusses the recent death of a patient in a gene therapy clinical trial. The case is being reviewed by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee at the National Institutes of Health. Mark Kay, the Dennis Farrey Family Professor in Pediatrics, provides comment here and in The Scientist.
The Scientist, 09/16/07
Sequencing the survivors
Genetic technologies have helped reunite Argentinean families that were torn apart by war in the 1970s. The work of Luca Cavalli-Sforza, professor of genetics, emeritus, is discussed in this article.
Malaysia Star, 09/16/07
Overcoming anxiety
When Panic Attacks - a book that discusses how to overcome anxiety attacks - was written by David Burns, adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
Broadcast media coverage
WCVB-TV (Boston), 09/17/07
This segment mentioned a Stanford study that found extra sleep significantly improved performance in athletes.
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