IN THE NEWS 2002
A summary of some of the UCSD faculty and staff who have been spreading the good word about UCSD Healthcare through the media, brought to you by Health Sciences Communications . If you have a newsworthy story, click here for our new online form GOT NEWS?, or call 619/543-6163
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Jack Dixon, Ph.D., Dean, Scientific Affairs-Health Sciences, was featured in the Associated Press and the San Diego Daily Transcript, announcing his appointment as Dean beginning in February.
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Jeffrey Schwimmer, M.D., Pediatric Gastroenterology, was interviewed by Channel 51/9 in a two-part series on the growing problem of obesity in children. Fox News also did a segment featuring Dr. Schwimmer.
Gordy McQuire, Pharm D., was interviewed by NBC 7/39 for a story on Claritin becoming an over- the-counter drug for allergies.
An NBC 7/39 news segment on the use of diuretics for high blood pressure featured an interview with Daniel Blanchard, M.D., Cardiology.
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United Press International reported that individuals with vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration, and especially those depressed over their condition, can benefit from a six-week self-management program, according to a study led by Stuart Brown, M.D., director of the Shiley Eye Center. Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/11_11_Brown.html
Samuel Bozette, M.D., Medicine, was featured in a USAToday column regarding survey results that indicate that Americans have a lot of misunderstandings about smallpox and the vaccine.
Lawrence Schneiderman, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was consulted
for an Associated Press story announcing that a California prison inmate had
died nearly a year after receiving a heart transplant that sparked a nationwide
ethical debate about the propriety of organ transplants for convicted criminals.
United Press International carried a story on research led by Mark Rapaport, M.D., Psychiatry, that found that depression in the elderly, which can lead to illness and premature death, can be treated effectively with the drug Paxil CR.
In a lengthy Chicago Tribune article, Joseph Witztum, M.D., Medicine, discussed the role of CRP (C reactive protein), in detection of heart disease, and its possible implications in the cause of cardiovascular disease.
Richard Kronick, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, discussed rising insurance costs in a San Diego Business Journal article.
A Wall Street Journal article on diabetes included Steven Edelman, M.D., Medicine, discussing the growth of diabetes and related illnesses.
Associated Press carried a story with final comments by Larry Squire, Ph.D., Psychiatry, regarding the findings of two studies that are "some of the best evidence" about how synapses behave in adult mammalian brains and could help explain how the human brain works.
Mary Middleton, R.N., director, Patient Care Services, discussed how the new nurse staffing ratios present challenges to hospitals facing nursing shortages in the San Diego Daily Transcript. The California Department of Health Services has a year to revise and implement nurse-to-patient staffing regulations.
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was included in an Associated Press story that claimed that the most significant medical landmark of the year 2002 was the realization that a practice steadfastly accepted by a generation of doctors, hormone replacement therapy, does more harm than good.
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A full-body computed tomography (CT) scan may be beneficial to fewer people than previously thought, according to a study presented by Giovanna Casola, M.D., Radiology, at the 88th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago. The findings of this study were reported throughout the worldwide media, including the Washington Post, CBS News, Associated Press International, Agence France Presse, and Discovery Health Channel.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/12_05_Casola.html
Acute kidney failure patients treated with diuretics are up to three times more likely to die or suffer irreversible organ failure than patients who are not put on the drugs, according to a UCSD study led by UCSD professor of medicine Ravindra Mehta, M.D., Medicine. The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Related articles appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, MSNBC, ABC news, Agence France Presse, Miami Herald, Yahoo News, United Press International, and the Weekend Australian.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/11_26_Mehta.html
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William Bugbee, M.D., Orthopaedics, was featured in a KFMB Channel 8 story about joint replacement surgery. Bugbee performed the specialized procedure on Channel 8 news anchor John Howard, replacing Howard's damaged knee with donated tissue.
Aaron Schneir, M.D., Emergency Department, was interviewed by Channel 10 on teens taking too much Coricidin, over the counter cold remedy, to get high.
Daniel Lozano, M.D., Clinical Director, Burn Center, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 on toddlers being injured by treadmills used for exercise in the home. The children are putting their hands into the mechanisms and suffering deep burns to the hand.
David Bazzo, M.D., Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 on the way a person can investigate selecting a private physician.
Krzysztof Kuczkowski, M.D., Anesthesiology, was interviewed by Channel 10 on a new pain reliever for women in labor called a walking epidural.
Shawn Youngstedt, Ph.D., Psychiatry, was interviewed on Channel 10's "Staying Healthy" about his clinical trial looking at the effects of exercise and bright light on body clocks.
Martha Fuller, RN, PNP, Pediatrics, discussed practical "tummy time" for infants on Channel 7/39. Providing "tummy time" while they are awake is a way to help ensure balanced physical development in infants, who now sleep and spend more crib time on their backs as a way to reduce the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Out of town patients and family members of patients staying at the Bannister Family House were interviewed by Channel 10 on the convenience of staying close to the hospital and the decrease of the financial burden of lodging for long term patients and their families.
Daniel Lozano, M.D., Clinical Director, Burn Center, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 on the importance of parents waking their children in a house fire instead of relying on a smoke detector to awaken them. Most children sleep through the sound of a smoke detector.
David Bazzo, M.D., Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 on prescription medications that can decrease the symptoms of the influenza if taken within 48 hours of feeling ill.
Larry Schneiderman, M.D., Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed in the ICU in Hillcrest for a CBS "60 Minutes" story on the ethics of providing a heart transplant to a criminal.
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Newsweek cited the three-site trial, headed by Mark Rapaport, M.D., Psychiatry, to test St. John's wart against the drug Celexa for minor depression, in an article on complementary medicine.
Ajit Varki, M.D., director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center and Jamey Marth, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Medicine, were featured in an article on glycobiology in the October 26, 2002 issue of the magazine NewScientist.
Now that thousands of women have gone off HRT, due to the NIH announcement of perceived risks, the spotlight is on alternatives. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine was featured in a Newsweek article detailing the research being done on alternatives to HRT treatment.
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Leann Cortimiglia, R.N., UCSD Regional Burn Center, was interviewed by Nurse Week.COM on her recent trip to New York Cornell Medical Center's burn unit, the unit that treated all the burn patients injured in the World Trade Center September 11 bombing. Cortimiglia and a team of seven other medical and support personnel took letters from Sumi Kastelic, director, UCSD Medical Center and Daniel Lozano, M.D., Clinical Director, UCSD Regional Burn Center, with accolades to their staff from the UCSD staff. The group also presented the New York burn center staff with a banner reading "With love to NYC" that had been signed at the Burn Run in San Diego by local citizens, burn survivors, firefighter and their families, and the UCSD Burn Center staff.
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Leann Cortimiglia, R.N., UCSD Regional Burn Center, will be on the PAX nationwide cable station as a contestant with her daughter, Jessalynn, on Super Market Sweep at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 26. The half hour show gives the contestants a very limited amount of time to grab groceries throughout the store. Watch to see who wins...
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Robert Langer, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was featured in a United Press International wire service story for his research that compared the bleeding rates experienced by women on various forms of hormone replacement therapy. Health and Age of Switzerland, and Health Central published these results as well.
The New York Post reported on a study by Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., and Donna Kritz Silverstein, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, that tracked diet and lifestyle factors - including coffee consumption - of 890 women and 638 men over a period of 30 years. They found that women in their 80s, who were lifetime coffee drinkers, had better cognitive function than did their non-caffeinated peers. Barrett-Connor was also interviewed by San Diego's NBC 7/39.
Psychiatric and neuroscience researchers at UCSD, along with scientists at nine other academic research institutions, will compare the brain images of individuals with schizophrenia with a new $10.9 million NCRR grant. Gregory Brown, Ph.D., Psychiatry, and Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., Neurosciences, director of the BIRN coordinating center, were featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune article that was carried nationally on Copley News Service. Brown was interviewed by NBC 7/39 for a story about the research, and the Orange County Register also mentioned the grant. Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/10_29_birn.html
UCSD broke ground on the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, which will bring the center's clinical, research, education and outreach activities together in one place. The ground- breaking ceremony was covered by channels 7/39, 8, 10 and 51, as well as KPBS radio, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the North County Times.
Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., Neurosciences, discussed autism research on Channel 10's "Staying Healthy" report. View the segment at: http://mcav/.ucsd.edu. Click on UCSD In The News from the left column, and then select "Link between Autism & MMR Vaccine Study Results."The New York Times and the Toronto Star also included research by Dr. Courchesne in feature science stories on autism.
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James Dunford, M.D., Emergency Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 8 on the hospital's preparedness for a terrorist event and the state wide disaster drill.
David Hoyt, M.D., and the Trauma Team were featured on Channel 10 Nightcast as Carol LeBeau, anchor, and her crew covered a night in one of San Diego's busiest trauma centers.
Leland Rickman, M.D., Epidemiology, was interviewed by Channel 10 on the Norwalk virus, a food-borne virus that has been causing havoc on cruise ships.
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Ann Fulcher, Program Coordinator, Mayri Sagady, Certified Nurse Midwife; and Kim Wolfe, Administrative Assistant; from the Hearts and Hands Volunteer Doula Program, were interviewed by KPBS radio on specially trained volunteers who make the birthing process easier for mothers-to-be.
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Popular Science magazine has selected the promising oral smallpox drug developed by UCSD School of Medicine researchers at the VA San Diego Healthcare System for a "2002 Best of What's New Award" in the Medical Technology category. The award is announced in the magazine's December issue.
Karl Hostetler, M.D., Medicine, and James Beadle, Ph.D., Medicine, led the development effort in collaboration with other research groups throughout the nation.United Press International interviewed
Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, regarding scientists who have achieved success in manipulating primitive cells to become nervous system cells, which, in some cases, restored leg function to laboratory animals with spinal cord injuries.A United Press International story regarding a Food and Drug Administration warning about a type of bone cement used to treat fractures in the spine included comments from
Steven Garfin, M.D., Orthopaedics, who said the alert might be over-reaching.The Los Angeles Times carried a feature article describing the research Trevor McMorris, Ph.D., Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Michael Kelner, M.D., Pathology, have undertaken on a chemical toxin derived from the jack-o'-lantern mushroom, irofulven, which is being tested as a possible therapy for difficult-to-treat cancers, such as advanced ovarian, prostate, breast, liver, gastrointestinal and brain cancers.
The San Diego Union-Tribune announced that UCSD medical researchers led by professor of psychiatry Igor Grant, M.D., Psychiatry, will direct a new study that explores how drugs that improve the health of people infected with the AIDS virus affect the brain and its vital functions such as memory, thinking and motor skills.
Arthur Kavanaugh, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed by the New York Times about a new rheumatoid arthritis drug from the pharmaceutical firm Abbott.
The San Diego Union Tribune noted that Terence Davidson, M.D., Otolaryngology, was an advisor on a San Diego Sate University study that projected that 14 million people in the United States have lost much of their ability to distinguish common odors, primarily due to the aging process.
In a feature on bi-polar disorder in the Los Angeles Times, Mark Rapaport, M.D., Psychiatry, discussed treatments for the disorder. His picture was included in the article.
In an interview for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Gordon McGuire, Pharm.D., Pharmacy, noted that consumer skepticism about generic drugs has become a familiar refrain. "If given a choice, many people will choose a name-brand drug over a generic, even if they have to pay a little more.", says Dr. McGuire.
David Hoyt, M.D., Trauma Center and American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, was interviewed by USA Today on what makes the difference between survival and death of any shooting victim.
J. Reid Meloy, M.D., Psychiatry, discussed the psychological feelings of serial killers in a U.S. News and World Report article on the serial killings in the Washington, D.C. area.
In a U.S. News and World Report feature on menopause, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, discussed hormone replacement therapy.
UCSD Shiley Eye Center researchers have been looking at the impact of a self-management program on those with Age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Those on the program reported a significant reduction in depression and increase in quality of life. Meanwhile, those on the waiting list found their depression increased.
A feature article on smallpox in New Republic magazine mentioned the research of Karl Hostetler, M.D., Medicine, who has developed a new vaccine, which is still in the developmental stages.
Richard Gallo, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine, was featured in Immunotherapy Weekly for his findings that people with atopic dermatitis fail to produce germ-killing peptides that fight infections and other inflammatory skin diseases. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
David Bazzo, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Downtown News on health information for the upcoming holiday season.
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Anne Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was an in-studio guest at Channel 7/39 to discuss breast cancer. She was also featured in a 5-part series on KOGO radio about breast cancer, the "fear factor" surrounding breast cancer, and the ever-rising survival rate.
Edward D. Ball, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed by various news media about his new research describing a 3-step process he and colleagues developed that may help leukemia patients. News interviews included HealthScout.com, the New Scientist magazine and Channel 7/39. The 7/39 news feed was broadcast to over 70 NSNBC stations.
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was an in-studio guest on KPBS-FM's "These Days" show to discuss the importance of early detection for breast cancer, and how to cope with the disease. Dr Sadler was also interviewed by Channel 7/39 regarding misconceptions about breast cancer.
Robert Langer, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, and Etta Lindenfeld, M.D., Psychiatry, were interviewed by NBC 7/39 about their study that compared the bleeding rates experienced by women on various forms of hormone replacement therapy. The study will also be featured on the WebMD and the HealthScout affiliate websites.
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Lisa Stellwagen, M.D., Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 10 about how to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. She demonstrated the proper way to swaddle newborns for a safe sleep, with the assistance of Sophia Tognotti, born at UCSD Medical Center on Monday, Oct. 28.
William Norcross, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 39 on the upcoming flu season and the benefits of getting a flu shot.
Patty Graham, R.N., Clinical Nurse Specialist, was interviewed by Channel 10 on the Music Therapy Program that helps to decrease stress and anxiety in the patients on the Cardiac Care Unit.
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Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., R.D., Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was featured on KOGO radio's health series discussing nutrition and dieting. She noted that the key to losing weight or keeping your weight steady is to include lots of fiber-rich vegetables on your plate.
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The Los Angeles Times Health section carried an article on the research many doctors are doing into the correct balance between bacterial exposure being harmful and being beneficial to keep our auto-immune systems healthy. Eyal Raz, M.D., UCSD Medicine, was highlighted, as a leader in synthetic DNA research for such auto-immune diseases as asthma, allergies and Crohn's Disease.
Eliezer Masliah, M.D., UCSD Neurosciences and Pathology, and his transgenic mouse research were featured in New Scientist. Dr. Masliah is co-discoverer of human
a- synuclein (ha-syn) that was discovered in amyloid plaques purified from brains of patients with Alzheimer's. Neuroscientists logically suspected that this synaptic protein played a role in Alzheimer's disease; however they soon saw the potential role this protein plays in other neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Dr. Masliah is now working on a transgenic mouse model for Parkinson's disease and has published his hard-won results.Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Medicine, wrote an Opinion piece for the San Diego Union-Tribune, explaining the use of embryonic stem cells in medical research.
James Dunford, M.D., Emergency Medicine, was featured in the San Diego Business Journal stating his support for small pox vaccinations of all emergency health care workers as recommended by the federal government.
Susan J. Little, M.D., Medicine, discussed her recent findings regarding the rising rate of transmitted AIDS drug resistance in Drug Week and AIDS Weekly.
The Associated Press carried a story about the current research being done to delay or perhaps even prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences, was featured in this article that noted that researchers suspect that the way people live, the pills they take, even the way they think may influence their risk of the disease.
San Diego Business Journal announced that Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D., Pharmacology and Biochemistry, was awarded the 2002 Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics by the Royal Netherlands Academy. http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_15_Tsien.html
Gordon McGuire, Pharm.D., Pharmacy, was interviewed by the Union-Tribune on the benefits and effectiveness of generic medications.
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John Pierce, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Gilpin, M.S., both of the Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, were featured in Cancer Weekly and NewsRX.com regarding the research they co-authored indicating that nicotine replacement smoking cessation aids sales are up, but effectiveness is down.
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Clifford Shults, M.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed by news media throughout the U.S. for his study with the dietary supplement coenzyme Q10 as a treatment to halt the progression of Parkinson's disease. An Associated Press wire story was carried in newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Dallas Morning News. One news-monitoring site noted that Dr. Shults and his Parkinson's study were mentioned in more than 90 publications the morning of Oct. 15. He was also interviewed by National Public Radio, the BBC, the news sections of Science and Nature magazines, the LA Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, NewScientist, USA Today, Miami Herald, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Websites that carried the story included ABC, CNN, MSNBC and HealthScout. The Oct. 22 issue of the Washington Post will include a lengthy article in its Health section.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/10_14_Shults.html
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Anne Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by Channel 6 News about the importance of breast self-examinations in the early detection of breast cancer as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
William Norcross, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 about websites that diagnose illnesses and the probability of an individual getting a disease.
The staff of UCSD Community Pediatrics' 5-a-Day program, in conjunction with Chef Andrew from Star of the Sea Restaurant and Specialty Produce, provided a healthy gourmet meal to the San Diego Fire and Life Safety Services Department that was carried live on Channel 9 with roving reporter Rod Luck.
Saralyn Williams, M.D., Toxicology, was interviewed by Channel 10 about the dangers of unregulated herbal supplements containing ephedra, a stimulant linked to dozens of deaths, which is under investigation by U.S. health regulators.
Katie Bogue, R.D., Community Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 6 about "National-5-a-Day Week," a campaign encouraging Americans to eat at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day for better health. Blanca Meléndrez, M.A, UCSD Community Pediatrics Latino 5 a Day Campaign, appeared on XHAS-TV, Channel 33 to inform the audience about National 5 a Day week and the campaign's calendar of events.
Anne Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by Channel 8 about the latest in breast cancer treatment for a story promoting Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the November 3rd Komen San Diego "Race for the Cure," sponsored by Channel 8.
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Richard Kronick, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was a guest on the KPBS radio program 'These Days'. Also participating was pollster Dan Yanelovitch.
UCSD Community Pediatrics' Latino 5-a-Day Campaign participated in three remote radio broadcasts promoting National 5 a Day Week on XLTN FM, Radio Latina, and XHTY FM, Pulsar. The radio remotes coincided with food demonstrations already taking place at Albertson's stores in San Ysidro and Chula Vista.
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The San Diego Union Tribune highlighted Richard Gallo, M.D., Medicine, and his team of researchers who found that people who suffer from eczema infections appear to lack two naturally occurring proteins.
Marty Schulman, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Today's Dietician regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Igor Grant, M.D., Psychiatry and Director of the UC managed Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, was cited in an article in the Los Angeles Times on the establishment of the first study sponsored by the center on the beneficial effects of medical marijuana using human subjects.
J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., Psychiatry, was cited in an Associated Press story on "trophy-taking" which occurs when a criminal records or videotapes the crimes that he/she commits. Meloy is an expert on criminal psychology and is consulted on many high-profile cases, including the current sniper case in the Washington D.C. area.
Christopher Kauffman, M.D., Orthopaedics, was quoted in a Copley News article regarding the fact that it is to never too late to improve posture. Even people with mild osteoporosis and a rounded back can make dramatic improvements with practice and a series of posture exercises.
Boston Globe extensively quoted Richard Kronick, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, concerning the Census Bureau recent report that the number of uninsured Americans climbed by 1.4 million in the year 2000, the last year for which statistics are available. Most of the increase came among people who get their insurance from their employers, rather than from the government. Kronick predicted these statistics last year in a paper for Health Affairs.
San Diego Business Journal ran a feature profile on Gary Firestein, M.D., Medicine, a leading expert in the field of rheumatoid arthritis, a disabling and chronic disease affecting some 2.1 million Americans. Firestein has been on a mission to try and understand the pathogenesis of the disease for nearly two decades.
Diane Bell, columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune noted that Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences has been named to a12-member National Advisory Council on Aging.
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Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Associated Press, UPI, Reuters, and CBS Radio News regarding his new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that smoking helplines are effective. USA Today and Channel 7/39 News interviewed co-author Chris Anderson on the same subject.
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Susan Little, M.D., Medicine, discussed HIV/AIDS research on Channel 10''s "Staying Healthy" segment Sept. 30 and during a one-hour Channel 10 special "The Changing Face of AIDS" on Oct. 5.
Denise Hermann, M.D., Medicine, was featured in a Channel 10 story about an observational study showing an increased risk of heart disease and heart attack in patients taking high doses of Vioxx, a widely-prescribed anti-inflammatory.
Teri Polley, R.N., a massage therapist with the Cancer Center, was interviewed by Channel 10 about her research grant to study the effects of therapeutic massage on cancer patients.
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 News regarding misconceptions about breast cancer.
Edward D. Ball, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 10 about new work at the National Cancer Institute that uses manipulated cancer cells from melanoma patients to fight their disease. Dr. Ball is conducting similar research here with cells from patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
Anne Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was an in-studio guest at Channel 7/39 to discuss breast cancer.
Maria Luisa Zuniga, Ph.D., Division of Community Pediatrics, discussed cross-border AIDS outreach activities in a Channel 10 interview for the station's special "The Changing Face of AIDS" on Oct. 5.
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Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was an in-studio guest on KPBS-FM's "These Days" show to discuss the importance of early detection for breast cancer, and how to cope with the disease.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune carried a special Health section on Sept. 29 that covered new research and therapies for a variety of medical disorders. UCSD faculty and topics featured in the special section included Patrick Lyden, M.D., Neurosciences, who discussed new therapies for stroke victims; Dilip Jeste, M.D. and Daniel Sewell, M.D., described the new Senior Behavioral Health unit at the Hillcrest hospital and talked about mental illness in seniors; David Tarin, M.D., UCSD Cancer Center, described some of UCSD's innovative cancer research; Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., talked about his team's research into the causes of heart failure; Tony Yaksh, M.D., Anesthesiology, covered aspects of pain research and treatment; Jerry Olefsky, M.D., Medicine, and Alberto Hayek, M.D., Pediatrics, discussed diabetes; Gary Firestein, M.D., Medicine, described new therapies to slow arthritis; William Freeman, M.D., Robert Weinreb, M.D. and David Schanzlin, M.D., discussed ophthalmology research and treatment.
Mary Middleton, RN, director, Patient Care Services, was interviewed by the Union Tribune on the transfer from Mexico of two burned children.
North County Times carried a feature on the new UCSD School of Pharmacy.
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Anne Wallace, M.D., will be featured in a 5-part series about breast cancer on KOGO radio in mid-October.
Choll Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Orthopaedics, will be featured in a Channel 7/39 TV special report in November in which "Consumer Bob" Hanson investigates mattress manufacturer's claims that high-end, firm mattresses are the best choice for people with back pain.
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Lawrence Goldstein, Ph.D.
, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, was contacted by several reporters seeking a reaction to Gov. Gray Davis' open-door policy for stem cell research in California. Among the media in which he was quoted were the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., newly-appointed dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, was featured in the San Diego Business Journal in an article about how local biotechnology companies will benefit from UCSD's new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The opening of the new school was covered by KPBS Radio and Fox 6. A story about Dr. Taylor's appointment as dean of the new school appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune. David Adler, Pharm.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, and Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., appeared in an article in the San Diego Daily Transcript about how the new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will help to meet California's need for pharmacists.
Related news releases http//health.ucsd.edu/news/09_24_Taylor.html http//health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/09_24_SOPP.html
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Robert Langer, M.D.
, Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 in connection with his public lecture entitled, "Does the Emperor Have New Clothes? Hormone Replacement Therapy in Light of Recent Findings in the Women's Health Initiative." Langer is Principal Investigator for the San Diego portion of the Women's Health Initiative, a long-term national health study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.Janet Crow, M.D.
, Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 39 on the importance of flu-shots for babies and toddlers and noted that the dose is two shots a month apart, unlike the annual shot for adults.Gordon McGuire, Pharm.D.
, Pharmacy, spoke about comparing the actual cost of medication with the co-payments that insured patients pay for prescriptions in an interview with Channel 7/39.Janet Crow, M.D.
, Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 39 on Respiratory Syncitial Virus (RSV) that is showing up in babies much earlier this year than in the past two years and the importance of premature babies receiving preventive immunization.Leon Thal, M.D.
, Neurosciences, was a featured guest on the KPBS-TV program "Full Focus Newsmakers." He discussed the latest advances in Alzheimer's disease research.RADIO
Adam Milgram
, Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was a guest on the KPBS program "These Days." He discussed issues of aging and some of the types of research going on at UCSD.Tony Manoguerra, Pharm.D.
, Pediatrics, was featured in a KPBS radio story about UCSD's new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Manoguerra spoke of equipping incoming pharmacy students for the rapid changes that will take place in the field over the next 40 years.William Norcross, M.D.
, Family Medicine, was interviewed by the North County Times on how weather, such as extreme heat, physically affects the human body.Leon Thal, M.D.
, Neurosciences, was interviewed by Associated Press for an article on statins and NSAIDs for the treatment of Alzheimer's.Daniel Kripke, M.D.
, Psychiatry, was interviewed by the Boston Globe about a drug that is prescribed for patients with narcolepsy that is being mis-used by others to stay awake.The comments of
Samuel Bozzette, M.D., Medicine, were included in a Contra Costa Times story on the federal government's plan for immunizing whole populations against smallpox in the event that the virus is used as a terrorist weapon against the U.S.Martin Kagnoff, M.D.
, Medicine, was cited in an article in the Los Angeles Times concerning research results indicating that scientists may have pinpointed the cause of celiac disease, a common, debilitating digestive disorder, that affects more than a million Americans. The finding could lead to the first effective therapy for the disorder.Pamela Sample, Ph.D.
, Opthalmology, was featured in an Associated Press story about researchers announcing that they can use specific bits of the deadly organism that causes AIDS to assist in fighting cancers that occur in the eyes. Dr. Sample predicted that more and more uses of molecular science will find their way into therapeutic practice.WEB
Fred Levine, M.D., Ph.D.
, Pediatrics, explained in a Wired.com article what UCSD researchers are learning as they grow insulin-secreting beta cells in culture with the goal of developing treatments for diabetes. The article is available atWilliam Norcross, M.D.
, Family Medicine, was interviewed by Health Scout News on how drinking a glass of water can help to avoid fainting.
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John Pierce, Ph.D., and
Elizabeth
Gilpin, M.S.,
both of the Cancer Center and Family & Preventive
Medicine, were interviewed by various news organizations about new research they
co-authored showing that nicotine replacement therapies, such as the nicotine
patch and nicotine gum, no
longer work to help smokers quit for the long term. Interviews include Los
Angeles Times, HealthScout.com, United Press International (UPI), CBS Radio
News, San Diego Union-Tribune, London's Sunday Express newspaper, "Vital
Signs"--the New York Times online health and science section,
Healthgate.com, and Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/09_10_Pierce.html
A UCSD research team led by
Michael Karin, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology,
discovered how anthrax bacteria uses one type of white blood cell to evade the
rest of the immune system. The findings were published in the journal,
Science, as well as worldwide through Reuters News Service, San Diego
Union-Tribune, Newsday, and Copley News Service.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/08_29_Karin.html
National Public Radio, BBC News Online, and the Canadian Public Broadcasting
Network carried stories about research by
John West, M.D., Ph.D.,
Medicine, regarding an unusual lung structure in elephants that is unique among
mammals. West believes that the reason for the strange anatomy is that the
elephant is also the only mammal that can snorkel at water depths that would
rupture the lungs of other animals.
Read the news release at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/08_27_West.html
James Dunford, M.D., Emergency Medicine, was interviewed by TV news stations Channel 6 and Channel 7/39 as part of a UCSD campus news briefing on the university's efforts in homeland security. Dunford discussed a funding proposal to develop an electronic system for improved patient tagging and identification during disasters. Dr. Dunford was also quoted in Homeland Security articles in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the North County Times.
David Bailey, M.D., deputy dean of the School of Medicine, and Maria Savoia, M.D., associate dean for curriculum and student affairs, were featured in coverage of the annual White Coat Ceremony for incoming medical students. Stories about the new students were reported on KPBS and KOGO radio, Channel 5 News and numerous local papers.
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Leland Rickman, M.D., Infectious Diseases, was interviewed by Channels 10 and 6 on the West Nile Virus.
Mary Sagady, CNM, MSN, Ginger Panter, CNM, MSN, and Kay Rutledge, RN, all of the UCSD Birth Center, were featured in a story on Channel 6 TV about a baby born last September 11 in the UCSD Birth Center. Cameras rolled as the mother and baby returned to the Birth Center for a one-year reunion with their caregivers.
Laura Baber, clinical nutritionist, was interviewed by Channel 10 on the new nutritional guidelines for recommended daily allowances of fat, fiber and protein.
Leland Rickman, M.D., Infectious Diseases, was interviewed by German 2nd TV on antibiotic resistant viruses.
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Mary Sagady, CNM, MSN, UCSD Birth Center, and Ann Fulcher, CLE, CD, UCSD Volunteer Doula Program, appeared on "Perfect Pregnancy and Beyond," a talk show carried on WSRadio, an independent Internet Radio station (www.wsradio.ws). Sagady and Fulcher discussed all the services offered at the UCSD Birth Center, including volunteer doula assistance.
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U.S. News and World Report carried a story linking the research reported by a UCSD team, led by
Ajit Varki, M.D., Medicine and director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center, that reported identifying a mutation that appeared about 2.7 million years ago, just before early human brains doubled in size.New Scientist highlighted a research team, led by
Paul Gagneux, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine. The team has found evidence of a devastating viral pandemic among chimpanzees in the form of a genetic scar it left behind in their genome. This could explain why modern chimps don't suffer from devastating effects of HIV infection - they are the descendants of AIDS-resistant animals.David S. Adler, Pharm.D., Family and Preventive Medicine and J. Andrew McCammon, Ph.D., Pharmacology, appeared in a San Diego Union-Tribune article about the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences -- the second public school of pharmacy in the state, which opens its doors September 26.
The North County Times featured Gary Firestein, M.D., Medicine, discussing a recent discovery by scientists at UCSD's School of Medicine that will help doctors and researchers understand why rheumatoid arthritis is so destructive and will aid them in treating the 2 million Americans who
suffer with this inflammatory joint disease.
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Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences, will be a featured guest on the KPBS-TV program "Full Focus: Newsmakers" with host Gloria Penner at 6:30 pm Monday, Sept. 16. He will discuss the latest advances in Alzheimer's disease research.
In a segment to be scheduled on Carol LeBeau's Channel 10 "Staying Healthy," Shawn Youngstedt, Ph.D., Psychiatry, will discuss a clinical trial using bright light and exercise to change the circadian clock. The findings from this study will offer insight into sleep problems of shift workers, travelers and individuals who have trouble sleeping "regular" hours.
Palmer W. Taylor, Ph.D., chair of Pharmacology, was interviewed by the San Diego Business Journal for an article to appear in the September 16 issue on the opening of the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Ajit Varki, M.D.,
Medicine and director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center was featured in The Scientist , Reuters News Service, Yahoo News and the San Diego Union Tribune about his study that used DNA microarray technology to show pronounced differences in gene expression levels between humans and chimpanzees. The researchers compared mRNA levels in the brains and livers of humans and chimpanzees, and used the data to construct distance trees representing the overall expression differences. Read the news release here http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/08_26_Varki.htmlGuido Schnyder, M.D.
, Medicine, discussed the findings of a clinical trial he led in which folic acid, vitamin B-12 and vitamin B-6 created sustained protection against repeat blockage of coronary arteries. The story, which was distributed by the Associated Press, Reuters, and United Press International wire services, appeared in publications throughout the U.S., including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. The story also aired on CNN, Channel 10, and KPBS Radio, and appeared on various medical websites, including WebMD, theHeart.org, and HealthScout.Read the news release here:
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/08_27_Guido.htmlMark Wallace, M.D.
, Cancer Center and Anesthesiology, was widely interviewed on pain issues in connection with the 10th World Congress on Pain held in San Diego. Wallace appeared live on BBC Radio in London; was quoted in a feature article on chronic pain in the San Diego Union-Tribune; was an in-studio guest on KPBS-FM; and appeared in a North County Times article about marijuana and pain. Wallace’s comments also were included in Wired.com and North County Times stories about the pain conference.A profile of
Sanjay Nigam, M.D., Pediatrics and Medicine appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Early praise for Dr. Nigam’s brand new novel, "The Transplanted Man", has appeared in reviews in Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News and the Union-Tribune, among others. Dr. Nigam's first novel, "The Snake Charmer," was also highly acclaimed.TELEVISION
Eyla Boies, M.D.
, Pediatrics, appeared as a guest on the Channel 6 morning show to discuss the health benefits of -- and social barriers to -- breastfeeding an infant beyond six months.RADIO
Robert Pedowitz, M.D.
, Orthopaedics, appeared on KPBS Radio’s "These Days" program to discuss treatments for degenerative joints, particularly arthritic knees.AIDS Weekly detailed research led by
Ronald J. Ellis, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, indicating that health care workers should monitor brain and spinal viral loads in HIV patients. Ellis and coauthors found evidence that high cerebrospinal fluid viral loads do indeed presage HIV-induced neurodegeneration.Sandra Chaplan, M.D.
, Anesthesiology, was quoted by United Press International in a story about how mothers and fathers respond differently to their childrens’ pain complaints. Chaplan, who chaired the local arrangements committee for the 10th World Congress of Pain, was quoted along with Mark Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Anesthesiology, in stories about the conference that appeared on Wired.com and in the North County Times.Christopher Kauffman, M.D.
, Orthopaedics, was interviewed by the Medford, Oregon Mail-Tribune for a story about a paralyzed Southern Oregon resident planning to undergo an experimental spinal cord regeneration procedure at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Kauffman also appeared in a San Diego Union-Tribune story about the negative health effects of poor posture.The San Diego Reader featured
William Bugbee, M.D., Orthopaedics, in a lengthy cover story about surgical knee repair using transplanted cartilage, a procedure known as fresh osteochondral allografting.Beatrice Golomb, M.D., Ph.D.
, Medicine, was quoted in USA Today regarding potential side effects of statin medications taken for high cholesterol.Timothy Morris, M.D.
, Medicine and chair of medical ethics, discussed the ethical and medical issues involving cryonics in an interview distributed nationwide by Copley News Service.Judith Varner, Ph.D.
, Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed by Wissenschaft-Online (the German equivalent of Scientific American online) and by a Japanese newspaper about research in which she and colleagues identify a naturally occurring hormone that inhibits angiogenesis. The research also describes the mechanism by which it works. New Scientist is also planning a piece on the research, which was published in Nature Medicine.STAY TUNED
Michael Karin, Ph.D.
, Pharmacology, was interviewed by Reuters wire service, New Scientist magazine, the San Diego Union-Tribune and several other news media regarding his study in the journal Science that described the mechanism by which inhaled anthrax disarms and evades the immune system, enabling the potentially lethal bacteria to rapidly spread throughout the body.Daniel Sewell, M.D.
, Psychiatry, and the Senior Behavioral Health unit will be featured on Carol LeBeau's Channel 10 "Staying Healthy" segment either Monday, Sept. 2 or Tuesday, Sept. 3.The Discovery Health channel on digital TV at 6 and 9 pm Sept. 25 will feature the story of a former UCSD graduate student who worked in the lab of
Mark Geyer, Ph.D., Neurosciences. Geyer is interviewed and segments of the program were filmed in his lab on the Hillcrest campus.A new NBC-TV syndicated program called "Life Moments" followed a trigeminal neuralgia patient of
John Alksne, M.D., Surgery, for an upcoming program. Alksne was interviewed and footage was filmed in the Thornton Hospital pre-op area and operating room.Ajit Varki, M.D.
, Medicine, was interviewed by the Public Broadcasting Service about his research for a nationally distributed program designed to help teachers explain evolution.James Dunford, M.D.
, and Samuel Bozzette, M.D., both Medicine, will participate in a Sept. 4 UCSD press briefing on UCSD's efforts in homeland security. Local newspapers, television and radio are expected to cover the event.Georgia Sadler, Ph.D.
, Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by San Diego Magazine for its annual special report on breast cancer.
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News media reports on a New England Journal of Medicine HIV research study by
Douglas Richman, M.D., and Susan Little, M.D., Medicine, were carried in Reuter's and United Press International wire services, the Boston Globe, the San Diego Union-Tribune, NewScientist magazine, and others. The researchers found an increase in the transmission rate of drug-resistant human HIV, now affecting as many as one in five newly infected persons. http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/08_07_Richman.htmlWayne Saville, M.D.
, Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed about lung cancer in connection with news that the Chargers general manager had been diagnosed with the disease. He was interviewed by the Union-Tribune and Channels 7/39 and 8, and was also an in-studio guest at Channel 8.TELEVISION:
William Norcross, M.D.
, Family Medicine, will be on County Television News (CTN) for the month of August on the new Feeling Fit Club program. Senior Health is the topic of the month and Dr. Norcross will discuss senior nutrition.Georgia Sadler, Ph.D.
, Cancer Center and Surgery, discussed how to deal with a diagnosis of breast cancer during an interview with Channel 8.Patrick Lyden, M.D.
, Neurosciences, discussed the use of botox for stroke patients with Carol LeBeau on Channel 10's "Staying Healthy" segment.Eyla Boies, M.D.
, Pediatrics, appeared as a guest on Fox 6 TV's morning show to discuss the health benefits of -- and social barriers to -- breastfeeding an infant beyond six months.David Fiefel, M.D., Ph.D
., Psychiatry, appeared on Channel 10's Staying Healthy to discuss a new clinical trial of a non-stimulant medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.PRINT:
Leon Thal, M.D.
, Neurosciences, discussed early signs of Alzheimer's disease in a Washington Post article about Charlton Heston announcing that he had the disease.In a Time Magazine cover story about bipolar disease,
John Kelsoe, Ph.D., Psychiatry, discussed the genetic basis of the disease and the hunt for genes that contribute.The Los Angeles Times featured the opinions of
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, regarding natural hormones as a safe alternative to the commonly prescribed hormone replacement regimen now associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer.Cedric Garland, Dr. P.H.
, Family and Preventive Medicine, was featured in a New York Times article that discussed sunlight's beneficial protection against cancer. The article quotes Garland regarding his past research indicating that some cancers were brought on by a lack of sun and vitamin D. The article also appeared in the Quest section of the San Diego Union-Tribune.Mark Wallace, M.D.,
Cancer Center and Anesthesiology, was interviewed by the Union-Tribune about pain management.Janet Distefan, Ph.D.
, a research associate in the Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control Program, was interviewed by Canadian Family Magazine about a recently published study she co-authored suggesting cigarette marketing can undermine good parenting.The San Diego Business Journal featured
Cedric Garland, Dr. P.H., Family and Preventive Medicine, regarding the abrupt halt of the nation's largest study of hormone replacement therapy in healthy menopausal women because the drugs increased the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke and pulmonary embolism.Leland Rickman, M.D.
, Infectious Diseases, was interviewed by the Reader on the West Nile virus.WEB:
NewsRx.com featured the results of a study
Noha H. Farag, M.D., Psychiatry, that indicated that people who react to stress more in their heart than in their vascular system are more likely to suffer immune system problems.
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John Pierce, Ph.D., and Betsy Gilpin, M.S., both of the Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, were interviewed by various news media about their newly released study suggesting that cigarette marketing can undermine good parenting. Interviews were conducted by Reuters, USA Today, Family News in Focus, Psychology Today, Channel 8 News, and others. The story aired on more than 300 television stations nationally with a total of 14.2 million viewers.
David Feifel, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, has been featured on TV news stations throughout the U.S. discussing a recent UCSD clinical trial of a patch for treatment of ADHD. Feifel had been interviewed by Ivanhoe Broadcasting, a producer of TV health segments that distributes the interviews throughout the country.
Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Molecular Medicine, described the results of his research team's investigations in hamsters of a potential gene therapy for heart failure. Stories appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Science News, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Reuter's Health and Bloomberg wire services, the Sacramento Bee, the London Daily Telegraph and on San Diego's NBC 7/39. The local TV story also was distributed by the NBC network to NBC affiliate TV stations throughout the U.S.
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Ajai Khanna, M.D., Transplant Surgeon, was interviewed by Channel 10 and KPBS radio on San Diego's first liver, kidney, pancreas transplant at UCSD Medical Center.
Leland Rickman, M.D., Infectious Diseases, was interviewed by Channel 6 on lab created synthetic polio virus.
Sharie Shipley, Lifesharing's Senior Communication Development Specialist, was interviewed by Channel 7/39 in the UCSD Hemodialysis unit about the importance of blood and organ donations to patients like 10-year-old Dylan Fortier, who is awaiting a second kidney transplant.
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by Channel 51 News about new research from England showing that women who breastfeed longer than one year have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer.
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The San Diego Union Tribune featured David Tarin, M.D., Ph.D., director, Cancer Center, and Pathology and Thomas Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, in an article about the significant and growing shift in the fight to conquer cancer by focusing, not on physically removing cancer surgically or with massive doses of chemotherapy, but on rewiring, disrupting or eliminating its lifelines.
In a series of San Diego Union-Tribune articles about hormone replacement therapy for women and the recent halt of an NIH national clinical trial, several UCSD faculty provided expert commentary: Robert Langer, M.D. and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine; Robert Resnik, M.D. and Jeffrey Chang, M.D., Reproductive Medicine; and Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., Medicine. In addition, Barrett-Connor was quoted in the Los Angeles Times.
San Diego Union Tribune featured research led by Alan Maisel, M.D., Medicine, which found that a new test that measures the distress signal from a failing heart can save thousands of lives by helping emergency-room doctors avoid misdiagnosing the potentially fatal condition. The study was published in New England Journal of Medicine.
Richard Kronick, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, discussed consumer-driven health care and health care strategy in an article in the Boston Globe.
Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences, discussed studies of statins for the treatment of Alzheimer's in a Reuter's Health wire story.
Research by Michael Geoff Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Medicine, and his team is highlighted in the "News Focus" column of the July 19, 2002 issue of the journal Science.
A San Diego Union-Tribune feature article on normally occurring memory loss vs. memory lost in disorders such as Alzheimer's featured information from David Salmon, M.D., Neurosciences, and Larry Squire, Ph.D., Psychiatry.
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by The News Journal in Wilmington, DE., for a feature about access to cancer care for the underserved
The July 19, 2002 issue of the journal Science included a special section on gene therapy that included a description of the UCSD Program in Human Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine.
Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., R.D., Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Better Nutrition magazine about the WHEL study and raw foods diets.
Teri Polley, R.N., massage therapist with the Cancer Center, was interviewed by the Del Mar Times about a School of Medicine grant she received to study the effects of therapeutic massage in cancer patients.
Therese Rymer, R.N. C.F.N.P., director, Clinical Services, UCSD Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, was interviewed by Nurse Zone on nurses' roll in the community during a disaster. Rymer was interviewed on her deployment experiences to ground zero with DMAT.
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Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was a guest on National Public Broadcasting's "Science Friday" Jan. 26, discussing hormone replacement therapy.
Robert Langer, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was an hour-long guest on the KPBS program "These Days," where he discussed hormone replacement therapy for women and answered callers' questions.
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Robert Langer, M.D.,
Cedric Garland, Ph.D., and Kathryn Boe, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, were interviewed by San Diego news media regarding the NIH’s abrupt stoppage of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial of combined estrogen-progestin hormone replacement therapy. UCSD experts were the major source of information in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the North County Times, on TV channels 7, 8, 9, 10 and 19, and on KPBS and KOGO radio.A follow-up story in the Union-Tribune included comments from
Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., Medicine and Jeffrey Chang, M.D., Repro Med.Wayne Saville, M.D
., and Tom Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., both of the Cancer Center and Medicine, were featured in a news release announcing the launch of a Phase II gene-therapy clinical trial for leukemia. The release appeared on various health and business news web sites, such as FreshNews.com, a San Diego-based business news web site. Dr. Saville was featured in news stories on Channels 6 and 10.David Hoyt, M.D.,
director, UCSD Trauma Center, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times and NBC Nightly News on the closing of the Trauma Center in Las Vegas.Daniel Lozano, M.D.
, clinical director, UCSD Regional Burn Center, stressed summer safety issues in the Eagle & Times, Asian Journal and Navy Dispatch newspapers. The story included safety information for sunburns, beach fire pits, and disposal of hot coals in proper containers.TELEVISION
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D.
, Cancer Center and Surgery, and Gregory Talavera, M.D., M.P.H., Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, were featured in a story by Channel 6 about the lack of Latino participation in cancer clinical trials. The story also discussed Sadler's clinical trial to develop coping strategies for caregivers of men with prostate cancer.Richard Clark, M.D.,
medical director, California Poison System, was interviewed by Channel 10 on the U. S. banning of Mexican aspirin because of potentially fatal side effects.Tom Kipps, M.D., Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Medicine, was featured in a story by Channel 10 about a clinical trial for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The study is to investigate the ability of a monoclonal antibody to eradicate residual disease following chemotherapy.Vicky Jones, M.D.
, Cancer Center and Medicine, was featured in two stories by Channel 8 - the soy controversy and the WHEL study. The soy story ran June 8, and the WHEL study story ran July 8.James Dunford, M.D.
, Emergency Department, was interviewed by Channel 10 on President Bush's proposal of small pox vaccinations for health care workers.UCSD HIV/AIDS expert
Douglas Richman, M.D., Medicine, and his work were included in a Newsday article on drug-resistant strains of HIV.Daniel Kripke, M.D.,
Psychiatry, was interviewed in two separate North County Times articles. In one, he discussed antidepressants, and in the other, he discussed two web sites he has developed for individuals with sleep problems.Michael Albo, M.D.,
Surgery, discussed Kegel exercises in a San Diego Union-Tribune column on senior health.Stephen Stahl, M.D
., Psychiatry, discussed antidepressants in a New York Times article.The San Diego Daily Transcript announced that
Anthony DeMaria, M.D., Medicine, was appointed editor in chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Psychiatry, was interviewed for an article on sleep in a women's consumer magazine, and by Newsweek.STAY TUNED
Tom Kipps, M.D., Ph.D.
, Cancer Center and Medicine, and David Tarin, M.D., Ph.D., Cancer Center and Pathology, will be featured in an article in the Union-Tribune about the microenvironment of cancer cells and how these environments appear to protect the cancer cells from the killing effects of chemotherapy and from natural cell death, called apoptosis. The story is scheduled to run in the July 17 science section of the paper.Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., R.D.
, Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Better Nutrition magazine about the WHEL (diet and cancer) study and raw foods diets.
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Dan Lozano, M.D., Clinical Director, UCSD Regional Burn Center, was interviewed by the Union-Tribune, KOGO radio, and Channels 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 51 on the dangers of fireworks and how 2nd and 3rd degree burns can result from poppers and other small fireworks.
The New York Times featured quotes from Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, about perimenopause, the new, attention grabbing younger sister of menopause, which was the focus on a recent Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Gordy McGuire, Pharm.D., Pharmacy, was interviewed by Channel 39 on the effects potassium iodide pills would have on the thyroid. The pills are being distributed to people living near the San Onofre nuclear power plant as a protective measure.
Cecilia Smith, M.D., Medical Director, was interviewed by Channel 51 on the upcoming vote for interns and residents to form a union for representation.
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U.S. News & World Report's cover story, Cracking the Cancer Code, described the work of UCSD researchers who have embarked upon a search for the unique genetic and molecular programs operating inside prostate cancer cells.
Carol Salem, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, and one of her patients, were featured in the story.The Los Angeles Times highlighted a quote from
Larry Goldstein, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Medicine, regarding the announcement from a Minnesota researcher that she has found a previously unknown type of cell in the adult body that acts much like the highly versatile stem cells from human embryos.The Boston Globe and the Montreal Gazette reported on the discussion gene-therapy researchers generated at their annual convention regarding the possibility of genetically enhanced super-athletes during a highly speculative seminar that underscored the renewed confidence bubbling in this once-troubled field. The discussion included comments by
Theodore Friedmann, M.D., Director, Gene Therapy.Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine and Pediatrics, was featured in a Copley News Service story about the National Human Genome Research Institute issuing a hit list of organisms it says should be genetically mapped as soon as possible, everything from chickens and chimps to sea urchins and honeybees.
Ed Babakanian, Director of Information Services, was interviewed by Insider Weekly on the software the nurses use on the floors for tracking patient information.
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"The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center", a webzine from the UC Office of the President has a feature article on visualization projects around the UC system including the UCSD Anatomic VisualizeR.
Helene Hoffman, Ph.D., assistant dean, Curriculum & Educational Computing was featured discussing this project. The video clips show the lectures of Kirk Knowlton M.D., Medicine, (Organ Physiology course) and Lisa Orloff, M.D., Surgery, (Human Anatomy course).
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Copley News Service featured Richard Clark, M.D., director of the Poison Center, in an article about adding candy like flavoring to children's medicines to encourage children to take the prescribed medicine.
David Fiefel, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, discusses clinical trials of a new skin patch treatment for ADHD in a news segment syndicated to TV stations across the U.S. The segment will run at various times within the next couple of months.
Gary Firestein, M.D., was interviewed by KUSI-TV (Channel 9/51) about his appointment as chair of the FDA's Arthritis Advisory Committee. In his capacity as the committee's chair, Firestein was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about arthritis drugs.
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Gordy McGuire, Pharm.D., Pharmacy, was interviewed by Channel 10 for the Staying Healthy Report on the high cost of prescription medications. The segment was used as the local perspective prior to the Peter Jennings special report on pharmacies in the U.S. and why people here pay more for medications than anywhere in the world.
Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, was featured in a "Nigel's Wild, Wild World" special on rats that appeared on the Discovery Channel. Tuszynski discussed the important roles of rats in biomedical research.
Bruce Hamilton, Ph.D., Medicine, described "junk DNA" and was quoted throughout a San Diego Union-Tribune "Quest" science article in the San Diego Union-Tribune. In a follow-up Quest article on genome projects, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D., talked about the use of mice as mammalian genetic model organisms for human disease.
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London's Financial Times quoted Theodore Friedmann, M.D., director, Gene Therapy, about the potential adverse effects of athletes using growth hormone injections to increase muscle mass.
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was quoted in a USA Today article about research findings that women would not sacrifice bone density if they decide to switch to lower doses of postmenopausal hormones to reduce side effects.
The North County Times featured Gregg Silverman, M.D., and Gary S. Firestein, M.D., both Medicine, in an article about the Rheumatic Disease Core Center on the UCSD campus, founded with a $3 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
The San Diego Daily Transcript featured Anne M. Wallace, M.D., Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and Surgery, in an article about her phase-one research trial of a new radiotracer for sentinel node detection in melanoma.
One of the sleep research studies conducted by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., Psychiatry was profiled in the La Jolla Light. The research results suggest that older people are sleepier during the day than their younger counterparts because their ability to sleep is reduced.
The Currents section of the San Diego Union-Tribune featured a story about a growing number of parents of newborns who are choosing to have their baby's umbilical cord blood collected, frozen and stored for life. Thomas Lane, M.D., Pathology and director of UCSD Medical Center's Transfusion Service advocated public banking or donating to the national registry in the article.
William Norcross, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by Westways Magazine (AAA car insurance magazine) on tips for travelers who get seasick on cruises.
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Ellen Beck M.D., Community and Family Medicine, was featured in an interview on National Public Radio about the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic.
Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed by National Public Radio about clinical trials of new Alzheimer's treatments.
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Patrick Lyden, M.D., Neurology, discusses stroke treatment in the June 30 issue of Parade Magazine.
David Salmon, Ph.D., Neurosciences, described the differences between normal memory loss and Alzheimer's to San Diego Union-Tribune writer Bobbi Ignelsi, for an upcoming consumer article.
Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., Pharmacology, will discuss the new UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences with KPBS radio for an upcoming story on the shortage of pharmacists.
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Richard Clark, M.D., Toxicology and California Poison System, was interviewed by Associated Press and Channel 9/51 on the nationwide shortage of rattlesnake anti-venom.
Betsy Gilpin, M.S., Cancer Center, was featured in an interview by KPBS-FM about her study showing the effectiveness of California legislation preventing smoking in the work place. She was also interviewed by Healthscout, a medical news website; and "Tobacco.org," a website dealing in tobacco control issues. Articles were also written by ReutersHealth and United Press International (UPI). To read the original release: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_24_Gilpin.html
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Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was featured in an interview by Channel 10 about sun safety.
Anne Wallace, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, and Linda Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, were interviewed by Channel 8 for a two-part series about hereditary risks for breast cancer.
Dolores Pretorius, M.D., Ultrasound, was featured on Channel 5 regarding 3-D Ultrasound which produces a computer-generated 3 dimensional image of the baby in-utero.
Jake Jacoby, M.D., Emergency Services, was interviewed by Channel 39 on the possibility of a smallpox epidemic. This interview aired prior to the season finale of the television show ER which dealt with two patients with smallpox arriving at the emergency room.
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Michael Oxman, M.D., Medicine, was featured in an article in New Scientist discussing the findings of a British research team that theorized that as more countries start to vaccinate against chickenpox, they will unwittingly encourage the spread of shingles, which mainly afflicts older people.
Martin Kagnoff, M.D., Medicine, discussed celiac disease in a San Diego Union-Tribune article.
Research by Eyal Raz, M.D., Medicine, on the use of synthetic bacterial DNA to treat inflammatory bowel disease in mouse models of the disease, was featured in the news section of the journal Lancet. To read the original release: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_29_Raz.html
John Pierce, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., about the effectiveness of California legislation to ban smoking in the work place and other public places.
The San Diego Daily Transcript featured Gary Firestein, M.D., Medicine and chief of rheumatology, allergy and immunology regarding his appointment as chairman of the Arthritis Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. To read the original release: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/UCSD%20AwardsHonors.html#Firestein
Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., R.D., Cancer Center and Family and Preventive Medicine, was featured in an story by Healthwatch, a health journal, and for their website http://www.immunesupport.com, about micronutrient deficiencies as they relate to chronic illness.
San Diego Business Journal featured Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, discussing her study, which suggests that Ginkgo biloba could slow cognitive decline in patients with multiple sclerosis. To read the original release: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_18_Corey-Bloom.html
Vicky Jones, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, and Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., R.D., Cancer Center and Family and Preventive Medicine, were featured in an article by the San Diego Union-Tribune about the role of diet in helping to prevent cancer.
USA Today carried a story on technology transfer that included commentary from David Smith, Ph.D., Neurosciences.
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Mark Jacobson, M.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed by a writer for the health information website ADAM for a story on the early signs of Alzheimer's.
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Daniel O'Connor, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed for an upcoming Channel 10 "Staying Healthy" segment featuring his clinical trial with sets of twins. O'Connor seeks to determine the role that heredity plays in hypertension.
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Leon Thal, M.D., Neuroscience, was featured in an interview on NPR, discussing Alzheimer's disease researchers' interest in drugs that stop proteins, called amyloids, from clumping up in the brain.
John McQuaid, Ph.D., Psychiatry, was a guest on the KPBS-FM radio program "These Days." He discussed the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for psychiatric disorders.
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Michael Criqui M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, and Beatrice Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine, will be in-person guests on "These Days" to discuss statins and their role in medicine.
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Ajit Varki, M.D.,
Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, and Elaine Muchmore, M.D., Medicine and VA Healthcare System, were interviewed by numerous news media regarding a study in the journal Science that shed light on why chimps and humans are so genetically similar and yet so mentally different. Among the news media carrying interviews were the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, Associated Press, Reuter's, UPI, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and ABC.com. In addition, Dr. Varki was the sole guest for 20 minutes on NPR's "Science Friday" April 19.Paul Martin, M.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed for the "Science Now" online site of the journal Science, and by Reuter's Health and UPI regarding his study showing that muscle destruction associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is halted in mice when supplemental amounts of a naturally occurring enzyme are added to skeletal muscle. The study appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed by The-Scientist
magazine and Reuter's and UPI wire services about his paper in the journal Science
that described the development of a molecular-tagging technique to chronicle the
development, movement and interactions of proteins as they do their work in
living cells.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_18_Ellisman.html
Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed by the web
sites WebMD and World Medical News about her poster presentation at the annual
meeting of the American Academy of Neurosciences. Her study showed that
Ginkgo biloba, an over-the-counter herbal remedy used by many to boost mental
awareness, slows cognitive decline in patients with multiple sclerosis.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_18_Corey-Bloom.html
Allen Gifford, M.D., Medicine, was featured in the New York Times, Associated Press and other national news media regarding his study May 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found that relatively few minorities are included in HIV clinical trials, even though blacks and Hispanics account for nearly half of HIV patients.
Eyal Raz, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed by Science News, Reuters
Health and Italian news media about his study in the journal Gastroenterology,
in which he determined that bacterial DNA could treat or prevent inflammatory
bowel disease in mouse models of the disease.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/04_29_Raz.html
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Daniel Kripke, M.D., Psychiatry, was interviewed by the NBC affiliate TV station in Boston for a story on sleep. The interview included his recent study on the number of hours of sleep needed.
Richard Channik, M.D., and Gordon Yung, M.D., Medicine, were interviewed by CBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles for a feature story on a patient in Thornton Hospital who is waiting for a lung transplant.
Kenneth Jones, M.D., Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 10 about fast food and the American diet.
Richard Kronick, Ph.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, spoke with Channel 7/39 about the complex factors contributing to mounting economic and access problems in health care.
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Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., and Karen Pierce, Ph.D., Neurosciences, were featured in a Time magazine cover story about autism. Courchesne is head of UCSD's Center for Autism Research.
New York Times featured the opinion of Douglas Richman, M.D., Pathology, on the first of a new class of AIDS drugs that has proven to be effective in its initial large clinical trial.
Daniel S. Kripke, M.D., Psychiatry, was featured in the Boston Globe
Science Briefs about his research that found that people who sleep seven hours
per night have a lower death rate than those who sleep eight hours or more.
Mary Margaret Pay, RNC, NP, of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center,
was featured in a recent Nursing Spectrum article about new approaches to
treating neurological disease. Ajit Varki, M.D., Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and director,
Glycobiology Research and Training Center and James Marth, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine, were profiled in Science on glycobiology.
New federal funding, new technologies, and a better understanding of carbohydrates' roles in biology have
scientists pondering the feasibility of a Human Glycome Project. Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine, was
interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune about a study published in the
journal Nature Medicine. Chien and Salk researchers identified the
probable link between the breast cancer drug Herceptin and cardiac failure, one
of its common side effect Steven Edelman, M.D., Medicine, was featured in an article in the Seattle
Times about new treatments, tools and medications for diabetes. WEB: Mark Jacobson, Ph.D., Psychiatry, was interviewed by a reporter from
A.D.A.M., an internet-based provider of health information on the Web, about his
recent study in Neuropsychology, which showed that
neuropsychological tests administered to normal subjects averaging 75 years of
age contained early signs of cognitive decline in those subjects who later
developed Alzheimer's disease. STAY TUNED: John McQuaid, Ph.D., Psychiatry, will be a guest on the KPBS radio
program "These Days," from 10-11 am Wednesday, May 8. He will
discuss cognitive behavioral therapy and how it helps individuals with
psychological problems overcome those problems. EVERYWHERE: Alan Maisel, M.D., Medicine,
released study results that show that a 15-minute blood test can accurately
judge if a patient is suffering from congestive heart failure. These results
were widely reported, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Associated Press, MSNBC.com, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. RADIO: Matthew Spear, M.D.,
Cancer Center and Radiology, was an in-studio guest on KPBS-FM "These
Days" to discuss new developments in radiation oncology. John Pierce, Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was an in-studio guest on
KPBS-FM "These Days" to talk about a variety of smoking-related
issues. TELEVISION: Gordon McGuire, Pharm.D.,
Pharmacy, was interviewed in-studio at Fox Channel 6 on seasonal allergies
and over-the-counter remedies versus prescriptions. Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Psychiatry, was interviewed by Fox-6 TV News about her study
of fatigue and breast cancer. Channel 10 news reporter Kim Edwards interviewed several
fourth year School of Medicine students at
the annual Match Day ceremony March 21 in the Club Med lounge. At this
annual event, the students learned where they would spend the next several
years. Mark Jacobson, Ph.D.,
psychiatry and VA Healthcare System, and David Salmon,
Ph.D., neurosciences, were interviewed by KGTV-TV about their finding
that early subtle signs of Alzheimer's disease might be detected in individuals
not yet exhibiting symptoms through "pencil-and-paper" cognitive tests
of verbal and visual function. The study was based on testing data
obtained from volunteers with the UCSD Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. PRINT: John West M.D., Medicine
and Physiology, will receive the Edward Livingston Treau Medal for his
contributions to control, prevent and treat lung disease. John Pierce, Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Family & Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by the Los
Angeles Times about proposed legislation to raise the legal age to buy
cigarettes from 18 to 21 years. Anthony Manoguerra, Pharm.
D., Director, California Poison
Control System, San Diego Division and staff members were featured in a story in
the San Diego Union-Tribune highlighting the San Diego Poison Control Center,
based at UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest. It is the 30th anniversary of the
Poison Control Center. J. Christian Gillin, M.D.,
Psychiatry, was quoted in the San Diego Business Journal feature on a new
insomnia drug that could rival Ambien. Linda Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D.,
Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed by the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute for a story about information sharing in science, particularly
among cancer geneticists. William Norcross, M.D.,
and David Bazzo, M.D., Family Medicine, were
interviewed by the Orange County Register on the PACE program, the state's only
rehabilitation program for doctors who are referred by the state Medical Board. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Bai Yun, the female
giant panda at the San Diego Zoo, undergoing an artificial insemination
procedure. Mark Greenberg, M.D.,
Anesthesiology, assisted during the surgery. A Washington Post article on Fertility and IVF cited UCSD
research led by Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, Ph. D.,
Family and Preventive Medicine, published in the October 2001 issue of Fertility
and Sterility supporting the theory that reducing stress may improve fertility. Mark Wallace, M.D.,
Cancer Center and Anesthesiology, was interviewed about cancer pain policy and
whether it helps or hinders adequate pain management, by InTouch, a national
print magazine and online resource for cancer patients, families and caregivers. STAY TUNED: Mark Wallace, M.D.,
Cancer Center and Anesthesiology, will be interviewed by KFMB-TV about the
viability of acupuncture for pain and symptom relief in breast cancer. Ajit Varki, M.D.,
Medicine and director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, and Jeffrey
Esko, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Medicine, were interviewed about
glycobiology for an article that will appear in the April 29, 2002 issue of The
Scientist. Barbara Parry, M.D.,
Psychiatry, discusses her research in an upcoming KGTV-TV segment on post-partum
depression. Rod Luck, KUSI-TV, will be broadcasting live from the dialysis
unit at UCSD Medical Center on Monday
morning, April 15, interviewing physicians, Lifesharing staff, and patient
Dillon Fortier about the importance of organ donation. Alan Hargens, Ph.D.,
Orthopedics, will be featured in an upcoming CNN story on a collaborative study
between UCSD and NASA. CNN filmed for three days at UCSD Medical Center,
filming Hargens and his research team, and two sets of twins participating
in a Clinical Research Center study of exercise conditioning. The study is
evaluating the effectiveness of a supine treadmill device called a Lower Body
Negative Pressure Chamber, which allows the subject to exercise while lying
flat, with this study simulating patients confined to long-term bed rest.
The device might also help astronauts maintain fitness in a confined,
zero-gravity environment.
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The New York Times reported that a team of researchers led by
Karl Y. Hostetler M.D., Medicine, has developed an oral drug that could be a useful treatment in the event of a bioterrorist attack with the deadly smallpox virus. Similar articles appeared in the Washington Post, USAToday, Wall Street Journal, United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters Health, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNN.com, Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, and the Agence France Presse.
Richard Gallo, M.D., Ph.D.,
Medicine, has been interviewed by several news media about the research
published last November in the journal Nature. The study showed that production
of natural antibiotics by the skin is essential to resist infection. News media
doing stories included the Wall Street Journal, The Scientist, Reuters wire
service, Business Week, Financial Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Orange
Coast Register, the BBC and Canadian Broadcasting. The San Diego Press Club has honored
Dan Lozano, M.D.
, Burn Center, was interviewed by Channel 10 and KOGO radio on the recent increase of toddlers burned while in the kitchen and other toddler burn injuries in the home.TELEVISION
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D.
, Family and Preventive Medicine, was featured on NBC World News Tonight in a segment about the ongoing research on high cholesterol and its affect on both the heart and the brain. Women with high cholesterol have been shown to have significantly more problems with memory and thinking.Michelle Dern, M.D
., Pediatrics, was interviewed by Channel 10 regarding the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine for children.Dolores Pretorius, M.D.
, Ultrasound, was featured by Channel 7/39 on a study using 3D Ultrasound for high risk pregnant women.The UCSD-led Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) was the topic of a San Diego Union-Tribune story on brain mapping that quoted BIRN coordinating principal investigator
Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., and Maryann Martone, Ph.D., both Neurosciences.In response to some studies indicating increased heart attacks in individuals taking protease inhibitors,
Samuel Bozette, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed in the Los Angeles Times about his survey of 36,766 HIV-positive veterans, in whom he found no increase in heart attacks among those taking the drugs.Larry Goldstein, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine, was quoted about stem cell research in an Associated Press wire service story carried by newspapers throughout the U.S.Gordon Gill, M.D.
, Medicine, and interim dean, Scientific Affairs, was the author of a cell biology perspectives in the March 1, 2002 issue of the journal Science. Titled "A Pit Stop at the ER," (with ER standing for endoplasmic reticulum), the article reviewed and commented on a paper published in the journal by Boston researchers.Leon Thal, Ph.D.
, Neurosciences, was quoted in an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune about local chemists devising a new strategy which could lead to faster development of drugs to treat cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer's among other diseases.Marquis Hart, M.D
., Transplant Center, was interviewed by the North County Times on a living-donor kidney transplant involving on two local casino employees.STAY TUNED
Stephen Wasserman, M.D.
, Medicine, and William Cain, Ph.D., Surgery, were interviewed for an upcoming San Diego Union-Tribune story on indoor air quality.The San Diego Reader is working with
William Bugbee, M.D., Orthopaedics, and Robert Sah M.D., Sc.D., Bioengineering, on a story about research and advanced clinical procedures in the field of joint replacement.Cindy Postel, R.N.
, Infant Special Care Center, was interviewed by Channel 8 for an upcoming story on the cobedding program for twins and other multiples. The story, featuring the McGura twins, is tentatively scheduled to air Tuesday, March 26.WEB
Rodney Hood, M.D.
, SOM '72, was quoted in an ABC.com story about racial disparities in health care.
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According to a new study led by Samuel Bozzette, M.D., Medicine, people infected with the AIDS virus who take antiretroviral drugs don not appear to have an increased risk of having heart attacks or strokes. The story appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press.
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Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed about the importance of breast self-examinations by Channel 8. The story was featured as part of the kick off Friday, March 8, of a new community service partnership between Channel 8 and UCSD Cancer Center. The project, called "Buddies for Life," centers on breast health and involves monthly news stories featuring Cancer Center breast health specialists, public service announcements, a web site and community-based outreach events.
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Anthony Manoguerra, Pharm.D., Director, California Poison Control System, San Diego Division and staff members of the Poison Center, were interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune for a feature story on the 30th Anniversary of the Poison Center.
Lawrence Goldstein, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, spoke to the Copley News Service about the implications of legislation to curtail stem cell research.
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Theodore Ganiats, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by Time Magazine for an upcoming article on PSA screening for prostate cancer.
Larry Schneiderman, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed by CBS "60 Minutes" for an upcoming segment on organ transplantation. Dr. Schneiderman discussed the ethical considerations involved in providing donor organs to certain patients, such as convicted criminals.
Matthew Spear, M.D., Cancer Center and Radiology, will be a guest on KPBS FM “These Days” to discuss new developments in radiation oncology. This program will air Tuesday, March 12th at 10 a.m.
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Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was interviewed extensively regarding her paper, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggesting that the osteoporosis therapy raloxifene was not associated with early cardiovascular harm, and, in fact, reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for cardiovascular disease. The story appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, USA Today and many other newspapers and websites, as well as various television news stations throughout the country.
Ajit Varki, M.D., Medicine, Cancer Center, and director, UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center, was interviewed by BBC radio for a series titled "Beyond the Genome." Dr. Varki discussed his opinions about a chimpanzee genome project. In addition, he has been interviewed on this subject by news media from Japan, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, India and Brazil. In an upcoming article in the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Varki will again be quoted about the importance of decoding the chimpanzee genome.
Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by the local television stations about the recent controversy over the efficacy of mammography. Dr. Sadler was also featured in an article in the La Jolla Light about breast cancer and early detection as well as on public radio in Los Angeles for innovative outreach programs.
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Dan Kripke, M.D., Psychiatry and the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was interviewed live on KUSI's Morning News regarding his study that shows that people who sleep an average of 6-7 hours a night have a lower mortality rate than those who sleep longer hours, or very short hours (4 hours or less).
Mindy Gottesman, R.D., Nutrition Services, Thornton Hospital, was interviewed by Channel 8 regarding good nutrition and foods with no nutritional value.
Denise Hermann, M.D., Cardiology, was interviewed by Channel 10 for a story about women and heart disease as a follow-up to an Oprah show about the same subject.
Steve Seagren, M.D., Cancer Center and Radiology, was interviewed by Channel 10 about screening for colon cancer.
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Leon Thal, M.D., and Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D.,
both Neurosciences, were quoted in an articles in the American Medical News
about the use of brain imaging technology for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
disease.
Ted Ball, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed by the North County Times for an article about monoclonal antibody-based therapies for cancer.
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An article by Pat Lyden, M.D., Neurosciences, on
stroke treatment is currently featured on the ABC.com website:
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Ana Navarro, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Family and Preventive Medicine, was featured in an interview by the National Latino Public Radio Network about the Por La Vida program, which brings cancer prevention and early detection information to the Latino community.
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Tomoyuki Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine will discuss his discovery of a protein called DANCE on Channel 8's 6 pm news Wednesday, Feb. 27. Nakamura, who discovered DANCE, explains the role of the gene in the development of elastic fiber and its future potential in therapies for various aging problems, such as twisted arteries, wrinkled skin and chronic conditions like emphysema.
In March, watch the Discovery Channel for "Nigel's Wild, Wild World" and a feature on rats. Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, was interviewed about the important role that rats play in research.
Carol Salem, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, will be featured in March by Channel 10 in a story about a new treatment option for bladder cancer patients in which she constructs a new internal bladder that enables patients to void normally.
Barbara Parker, M.D., Cancer Center and Medicine, was interviewed about colorectal cancer by San Diego Magazine as part of their 2002 Medical Guide.
Carol Salem, M.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed about prostate cancer by San Diego Magazine as part of their 2002 Medical Guide.
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Daniel Kripke, M.D., Psychiatry and the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was interviewed by media from around the world, including the New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Scientific American, several television, radio and web networks, and local media, regarding his study that shows that people who sleep an average of 6-7 hours a night have a lower mortality rate than those who sleep longer hours, or very short hours (less than 3).
Jerry Olefsky, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed by KPBS radio regarding the New England Journal of Medicine article that published findings from the national Diabetes Prevention Program clinical trial. This trial found that exercise and diet dramatically decrease the chances of getting diabetes in a healthy individual who has higher than average glucose levels. Channel 8 also reported the findings.
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Erik Viirre, M.D., Ph.D., Otolaryngology, was interviewed for a Channel 10 Staying Healthy Report regarding his research on a new treatment for tinnitus, chronic ringing in the ear. Along with colleagues in UCSD's Cognitive Sciences and Music departments, Dr. Viirre has developed a novel, non-invasive method to treating the disease by making a digital replica of the tinnitus sound. The sound replica is then downloaded onto a MP3 player. Patients repeatedly listen to the noise so their brain learns to tune the sound out. Dr. Viirre was also interviewed by Ivanhoe Broadcast News regarding a Virtual Reality therapy he developed to treat people with chronic dizziness.
Richard Clark, M.D., Poison Center, was interviewed by Channel 10 regarding the herb Kava.
William Norcross, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 10 about energetic healing.
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The Wall Street Journal featured an article about Beatrice A. Golomb, M.D., Medicine, who is conducting a $4.4 million study assessing the side effects of statin, a popular drug used to lower cholesterol and reduce heart-attack risk.
The UCSD sponsored Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) led by Jake Jacoby, M.D., Emergency Department, is currently at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which was reported in Diane Bell's column in the Union Tribune. USA Today also interviewed Dr. Jacoby about the team’s presence at the Winter Olympics.
Mark H. Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Leon Thal, M.D., both Neurosciences and Hoi Sang U, M.D., Surgery, were featured in the San Diego Union Tribune Quest section about their experimental gene therapy that aims to restore functions lost to Alzheimer's. The article chronicles the day of the operation for patient Lola Crosswhite, one of the first people to try a new gene therapy for Alzheimer's disease.
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Murray Stein, M.D., Psychiatry, will be a guest on KPBS' "These Days" on Tuesday Feb.19 at 10 a.m. He will be talking about shyness and social anxiety, focusing on his book "Triumph Over Shyness."
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Dan Lozano, M.D., and Leann Bish, R.N., UCSD Regional Burn Center, will kick off Burn Awareness Week (Feb. 4 to 11) as guests KSON 97.3 FM radio with Tony and Kris at 10:45 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 4. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 10:15 a.m. Firefighter Tony Pollard, who was a patient in the UCSD Burn Center, will be on KSON's Tony and Kris show.
Tune into KUSI Ch. 9/51 on Monday, February 11 at 8:25 a.m. when Rod Luck does a live story from the UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest dialysis clinic. He will be interviewing some of our doctors and a very special patient, Dillon Fortier, who is waiting for a kidney transplant.
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Leon Thal, M.D. and Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, and Hoi Sang U, M.D., Surgery, were featured on CNN’s "Your Health". CNN health reporter Rhonda Rowland highlighted the life of patient Lola Crosswhite, the third person to receive an insertion of modified cells into the area of her brain where Alzheimer's damage occurs.
Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Cancer Center and Surgery, was interviewed by Channel 10 about how to make sense of recent studies of mammography, some of which suggest there is no survival benefit to women who undergo screening mammograms, and others that show a significant benefit.
Leon Thal, M.D., Neurosciences, made an appearance on CNN’s Daybreak regarding a new Alzheimer’s vaccine.
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James Dunford, M.D., Emergency Department, was interviewed by the San Diego Business Journal on the benefits of the pilot program for a clean needle exchange.
Lawrence Schneiderman, M.D., Family and Preventive Medicine, was quoted in an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Associated Press about the renewed ethics debate involving who gets organ transplants. The particular case discussed was a California inmate who received a heart transplant. The article appeared internationally, including Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, Middle East, India, and Asia.
David J. Schanzlin, M.D., Opthalmology, was featured in an article in the San Diego Daily Transcript discussing the latest advancements in corrective eye surgeries, as well as ongoing research at the UCSD Shiley Eye Center in these areas.
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Martin Stein, M.D., Pediatrics, was interviewed by babycenter.com regarding attention deficit disorder.
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Mark Geyer, Ph.D., Psychiatry, will be featured in an upcoming segment for the Discovery Health Channel. One of Geyer's former post-doctoral students, who was injured in a bicycle-bus crash, will be profiled. During his interview, Geyer discussed his research and the student’s work while at UCSD.
Leon Thal, M.D. and Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosciences, and Hoi Sang U, M.D., Surgery, will be featured on the CNN "Your Health" segment Saturday, Jan. 26 at 2:30 pm EST (11:30 am PST). CNN health reporter Rhonda Rowland followed patient Lola Crosswhite, the third person to receive an insertion of modified cells into the area of her brain where Alzheimer's damage occurs.
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Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., Neurosciences, discussed autism research in a "Quest" science feature in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
UCSD Regional Burn Center was featured in the North County Times for the remarkable care given to a young patient that enabled him to live an active life. The young boy returned with a bounty of toys for young patients in the unit.
Michael J. Welsh, M.D., Pediatrics, discussed peanut allergies in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Associated Press wire service interviewed Tomoyuki Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., a project scientist in the lab of Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine, regarding their paper published Jan. 10 in the journal Nature. The work offers insight into the role of a recently discovered protein in the development of elastic fibers, and the potential for future therapies to combat these and other aspects of aging. The AP article is expected to appear in newspapers throughout the U.S.
Mary Middleton, RN, director of Patient Care Services, was interviewed by Channel 6, 7/39, 8, 10, 19, 51, KPRI, Union-Tribune and the Daily Transcript on the Gov. Davis announcement to establish minimum nurse staffing standards for hospitals. UCSD Healthcare has been using the standards in many of the categories for years.
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Todd P. Gilmer, Ph.D., and Richard Kronick, Ph.D., both Family and Preventive Medicine, were referenced on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in an article about the future of healthcare in the United States. The reference to their work is also mentioned in the American Medical News.
Gordon McGuire, Pharm.D., Pharmacy, was quoted in the San Diego Business Journal in an article about medical centers instituting bar-coding systems for prescription drugs to help reduce harmful medical errors.
Mark
Ellisman, Ph.D., Neurosciences, was quoted in an article in the
Pittsburgh-Post Gazette about neuroscientists using powerful new computer
systems to construct highly detailed, three-dimensional models of portions of
the body to simulate various diseases, or “rational detection” of diseases.
An article appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune regarding the Science Education Partnership Award program between UCSD School of Medicine and Helix High School, which is the result of a grant from the National Institutes of Health. On Jan. 11, 65 Helix High School students came to UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest for a field trip directed by Leland Rickman, M.D., Epidemiology. The students learned first-hand about the world of medicine by visiting the resuscitation room, the dialysis clinic, the microbiology labs and various other units throughout the hospital. A picture of the students learning about bones and casting from Tom Byrne, senior orthopaedic technician, appeared with the article. Gerry Boss, M.D., Medicine, and principle investigator of the grant, was interviewed for the article.
Theodore Friedmann, M.D., Pediatrics, and director, UCSD Program in Human Gene Therapy, was the author of an editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune titled "The Future of Cloning Research in California." Friedmann was a member of the Cloning Commission for the state of California, which presented its recommendations to the Governor and State Legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002. The Commission recommended that the state ban human reproductive cloning, since the risks to human life are still too great. And, the members recommended that California not prohibit but reasonably regulate human non-reproductive cloning that holds enormous promise for improving human health.
Victor Nizet, M.D., Pediatrics, was quoted in United Press International regarding his research linking a powerful bacterial toxin to the rapid infection of soft tissue commonly called "flesh-eating"disease.
Michael Grundman, M.D., and Jody Corey-Bloom,
M.D., Ph.D., both Neurosciences, were quoted in the Orange County Times
regarding the intensity of Alzheimer's research, and the number of potential
treatments in the pipeline that make it likely that a significant advance will
be made this decade.
William Norcross, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by the Coronado Eagle and Journal on safety tips for the holidays.
Mark Bracker, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by the Union Tribune on exercising when ill or not feeling well.
Doris Howell, M.D., Pediatrics, was featured as Local Hero by the La Jolla Village Newspaper for being an outstanding woman physician in the field of Pediatrics at UCSD since 1974.
David Bazzo, M.D., Family Medicine, and Joe Ramsdell, M.D., Medicine, were interviewed by the Maryland Coast Dispatch on baby boomers and their health care needs now and in the future.
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Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., and Tomoyuki Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., both Medicine, were featured in United Press International, Reuters Health and Health Scout, about their study findings regarding the role a recently discovered protein plays in the sagging skin and twisted arteries that characterize aging and in such chronic lung diseases as emphysema.
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Ajit Varki, M.D., Medicine, was interviewed by BBC World Service radio about the potential insights available to researchers if the chimpanzee genome can be sequenced.
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David Feifel, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, discussed a clinical trial of a new skin patch offering medication to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children on Channel 10.
William Norcross, M.D., Family Medicine, was interviewed by Channel 39 about magnets being mistakenly used as health aids.
STAY TUNED:
Watch for upcoming media coverage of the California Cloning Commission report to the Governor and State Legislature. Theodore Friedman, M.D., director of UCSD's Program in Human Gene Therapy, will be quoted in the LA Times and other news media.
Cynthia Postel, R.N., Infant Special Care Center, was interviewed by Channel 10 for a story about co-bedding, a process practiced in UCSD's ISCC in which newborn twin or multiple infants are put in the same bed simulating their unique prenatal environment and experience. The story will air in the next few weeks.
Mark Geyer, Ph.D., Psychiatry, will be interviewed by a production company doing a special for the Discovery Channel. The segment will tell the story of a UCSD post-doctoral student from the Netherlands who was severely injured in a bus-bicycle crash. Geyer's counsel and work in his lab helped the student recover emotionally from the ordeal.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, CNN's "Your Health" segment will feature UCSD's clinical trial of surgical implantation of genetically modified tissue in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The segment features Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D. and Leon Thal, M.D, Neurosciences, Hoi Sang U, M.D., Surgery, and a San Diego patient who underwent the surgery in December. An upcoming edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune's Wednesday "Quest" section will also carry a feature story on the patient and the procedure.
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