SUMC in the News (09/21/07)
Print media coverage
Associated Press, 09/21/07
Doctors to separate conjoined twins
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital are planning a separation surgery for conjoined twins from Costa Rica. Gary Hartman, clinical professor of pediatric surgery, and Frank Hanley, the Lawrence Crowley, M.D., Endowed Professor in Child Health, are quoted in this article. The piece appears on CBSNews.com, Forbes.com, FoxNews.com and on the websites of numerous newspapers, including the Arizona Daily Sun, Contra Costa Times, Denver Post, Fresno Bee, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Modesto Bee, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Washington Post. Hartman is also quoted in an Oakland Tribune piece, which appears in the Alameda Times Star and San Jose Mercury News. The Palo Alto Daily News also prepared an article which quotes Hartman, Hanley and Gail Wright, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics; Hartman is also quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, along with M. Gail Boltz, assistant professor of anesthesia.
San Francisco Chronicle, 09/20/07
Keeping lungs young
In this piece, Nayer Khazeni, a medical school fellow, discusses the importance of having healthy lungs.
The Hill (Washington DC), 09/20/07
Backers of battlefield medicine research program fight for funds
This article discusses the Pentagon's decision to eliminate a battlefield medicine research program. It mentions that the program has centers at several universities, including Stanford.
Slate.com, 09/18/07
Your health this week: Tough scars
This item on severe and disfiguring scarring mentions the work of several Stanford researchers, including Michael Longaker, MD, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, and Geoffrey Gurtner, associate professor of surgery.
Broadcast media coverage
KPIX-TV, 09/20/07
This segment discussed the conjoined twins. Similar segments also aired on numerous stations, including KGO-TV, KRON-TV, KTVU-TV, KNTV-TV, and KCBS-AM. Gary Hartman, Frank Hanley and Peter Lorenz, professor of surgery, were interviewed.
KTAR-FM (Phoenix), 09/20/07
Jonathan Berek, professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was featured in this segment on new data on the effectiveness of Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine.
KING-TV (Seattle), 09/19/07
Stanford researchers have developed a method that might help give the results of pre-natal tests within just a few hours instead of two weeks, thus making the early detection of Down syndrome and other birth defects possible. This segment aired on numerous TV stations, including ones in Charleston, S.C.; Dallas; Dayton, Ohio; Harrisburg, Pa. and Richmond, Va.
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