SUMC in the News (10/29/08)
Podcast
During this "1-2-1" interview, Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, discusses the prospects for major reform to the U.S. health-care system after the nation's economic crisis. 1-2-1 is a podcast on health-care policy and biomedical research; Paul Costello, the school's executive director of communications, is host.
Print media coverage
Palo Alto Weekly, 10/24/08
Health notes/Omnivore's dilemma
Christopher Gardner, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, will deliver a lecture on nutrition Thurs. night at Arrillaga Alumni Center. The talk is being presented by the Stanford Health Library.
Internet/New media coverage
Forbes.com, 10/27/08
Elaborate network drives when and where proteins are made
Researchers here have uncovered an extensive, but until now barely noticed, network of regulatory interactions that influence what proteins are made inside a cell. Graduate student Dan Hogan and Pat Brown, professor of biochemistry, are quoted in this HealthDay News article.
Broadcast media coverage
KSBW-TV (Monterey, Calif.), 10/28/08The School of Medicine recently broke ground on the Lokey Stem Cell Research Building, which will become the nation's largest stem cell research facility. A segment on the groundbreaking also aired on KMIR-TV (Palm Springs, Calif.).
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