SUMC in the News (11/12/08)
Press releases
Stanford author explores struggles of intersex individuals, their families and doctors
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.
Print media coverage
Wall Street Journal, 11/12/08
The informed patient: The hospital is watching you
Hospitals are increasingly relying on electronic tracking systems to keep tabs on equipment and lab specimens and to monitor the location of patients and staff. Purna Prasad, director of clinical technology and biomedical engineering at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, provides comment in this article.
California Aggie (UC Davis), 11/12/08
UC Davis professor receives grant from Gates Foundation
This article discusses the TB work of a UC Davis professor and Julie Parsonnet. Parsonnet, the George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine, is quoted.
Internet/ New media coverage
Examiner.com, 11/12/08
There's much more than meets the eye in that new Crestor study
A new study suggests that statins can dramatically decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes for millions more people and that patients who could most benefit from the drugs can be identified through a simple blood test. Mark Hlatky, professor of health research and policy and of cardiovascular medicine, wrote an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine and is referenced in this opinion piece.
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