SUMC in the News (12/10/08)
Podcast
During this "1-2-1" interview, Michael Longaker, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, discusses the state and future of stem cell research. Longaker is also the deputy director of Stanford's Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute and the director of the Program in Regenerative Medicine. Paul Costello, the school's executive director of communications, is host.
Print media coverage
The Province (Canada), 12/10/08
Don't snooze and you'll lose
This article discusses the health benefits of sleep. A Stanford study on sleep and exercise is referenced.
Internet/ New media coverage
Palo Alto Online News, 12/10/08
PA, Stanford split on mitigating huge projects
This article discusses Stanford's expansion projects, including the medical center's. Andy Coe, chief government relations officer at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, is quoted in this story, which also appears in the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Packard doctors to help woman in coma, baby
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital helped deliver the unborn, premature baby of a woman who slipped into a liver-failure-induced coma. Maurice Druzin, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Packard Children's and the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Professor, and Robert Dicks, hospital spokesperson, are quoted here.
Miller-McCune.com, 12/05/08
Raising awareness about a silent killer
As many as 2 million Americans live with chronic hepatitis B; without treatment, one-quarter of them will die from liver cancer or cirrhosis. This article discusses efforts to prevent and treat hepatitis B in the Asian-American population and mentions the work of Stanford's Asian Liver Center. Stephanie Chao, a surgery resident and fellow at the center, is quoted.
Broadcast media coverage
KGO-TV, 12/10/08
This segment discusses the expansion projects at the university and the medical center. Similar segments also aired on KTVU-TV and KRXI-TV (Reno).
WTIC-TV (Hartford, Conn.), 12/10/08
More parents are buying 'green' toys. Alan Greene, professor of pediatrics with Packard Children's, was interviewed during this segment.
WNYC-AM (New York), 12/05/08
Katrina Karkazis, a medical anthropologist at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is the author of a new book, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority and Lived Experience. Karkazis wrote her book to examine the conflicts and struggles around treating intersex conditions and was interviewed during this segment.
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