SUMC in the News (09/24/07)

Print media coverage

Palo Alto Online, 09/23/07
$350,000 stolen from child-health foundation
A former employee will be prosecuted for stealing about $350,000 from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. The foundation raises funds on behalf of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and for children-related programs in the medical school.

New Scientist, 09/22/07
Scar free: How to heal as well as an unborn baby (No online version available)
Geoffrey Gurtner, associate professor of surgery, is quoted in this article on scars and adult wound healing.

Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio), 09/22/07
Hostility, pettiness jeopardize health-care “war” in this region
In this piece, Daniel Morissette, chief financial officer of Stanford Hospital & Clinics, discusses conflicts among the health-care systems in Toledo. Morissette recently served as senior vice president for finance and strategy at the University of Toledo.

Washington Post, 09/21/07
Most women unaware of hormone replacement study
Despite the huge publicity generated by a 2002 study on the potential dangers of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women, new research has found that only 29 percent of women surveyed knew about the study two years later. The research was led by Randall Stafford, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, who is quoted here. This HealthDay article also appears on drKoop.com and Forbes.com and in the Grand Junction Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colo.), Longview News-Journal (Longview, Texas) and Marshall News Messenger (Marshall, Texas).

Baltimore Sun, 09/21/07
Doctors to separate conjoined twins
Doctors at Packard Children's 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 Associated Press article, which also appears on Salon.com and in the Sacramento Bee. Hartman is also quoted in a United Press International piece.

Health, 09/21/07
Hot flashes? What to do right now
This article lists six ways to relieve hot flashes. A Stanford study on acupuncture is referenced.
http://www.health.com/health/article/0,23414,1663422,00.html

InsideHigherEd.com, 09/21/07
Why women leave academic medicine
Stanford is referenced in this article on why an increasing number of female scientists are leaving academia.

Broadcast media coverage

WNYT-TV (Albany, N.Y.), 09/22/07
Paul Brown, with the Department of Surgery, is developing 3-D databases of human anatomy. This segment on the work also aired on TV stations in Anchorage, Alaska; Birmingham, Ala.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Champaign, Ill.; Charlottesville, Va.; Columbia, S.C.; Dallas; Duluth, Minn.; Sacramento and Wilmington, N.C.

WBAL-TV (Baltimore), 09/21/07
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.