SUMC in the News (12/09/08)
Print media coverage
Palo Alto Daily News, 12/09/08
Palo Alto blasts Stanford plans (No online version available)
This article discusses Stanford's expansion projects, including the medical center's.
San Francisco Chronicle, 12/08/08
Experts urge wider use of brain-boosting drugs
This article discusses "cognitive enhancement" - the use of brain-stimulating drugs and devices by healthy people. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, was one of seven co-authors who published a commentary in the journal Nature and is quoted here. Greely also provides comment in an article on USNews.com
Internet/ New media coverage
Time.com, 12/2008
The top 10 everything of 2008/Top 10 medical breakthroughs
Time magazine has come out with a list of the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2008. A noninvasive, prenatal genetic test for Down syndrome designed by Stanford scientists is included on the list.
Broadcast media coverage
KNTV-TV, 12/08/08
A San Jose couple became the first Bay Area patients to participate in a "kidney chain," a novel arrangement in which a cluster of surgeries are performed simultaneously on donors and recipients around the country. Marc Melcher, assistant professor of surgery, helped perform the surgeries and was interviewed during this segment.
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