SUMC in the News (09/25/07)
Print media coverage
New York Times, 09/25/07
Health coverage in the balance
In this letter to the editor, Spyros Andreopoulos, director emeritus of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, responds to an op-ed on health care reform.
Stanford Daily, 09/25/07
Former prof. gives large gift
James Doty, a former Stanford neurosurgeon, has donated $5.4 million to the medical school. He and Gary Steinberg, the Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Professor in Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, are quoted in this article. John Adler and Pak Chan, both professors of neurosugery, are also referenced here.
San Mateo County Times, 09/25/07
Palo Alto OKs expansion projects
This article discusses the latest on the expansions plans at the hospitals. A similar article appears on Palo Alto Online.
USA Today, 09/24/07
Routine physical exams may need checkup
A new study questions the value of routine check-ups. Douglas Owens, professor of medicine, provides comment here and in articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and on WebMD.com. The WebMD article also appears on CBSNews.com.
Broadcast media coverage
WCSH-TV (Portland), 09/24/07
Paul Brown, with the Department of Surgery, is developing 3-D databases of human anatomy.
WECT-TV (Wilmington, N.C.), 09/24/07
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital are planning a separation surgery for conjoined twins from Costa Rica. A segment on the twins also aired on Univision.
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