UCSD Health Sciences Communications HealthBeat Archives 2002
Defects in Molecular Trigger for Muscle Growth & Survival
Are Important Genetic Cause of Human Heart Failure - 12/26/02
cardiomyopathy, M. Hoshijimia, K. Chien
UCSD Healthcare Offers
New Technology for Hearing Impaired - 12/20/02
SOUNDTEC® Direct System, J. Harris
UCSD
Recruits Acclaimed Protein Scientist As Dean for Scientific Affairs-Health
Sciences - 12/16/02
J. Dixon
UCSD Medical Center Educates New Parents On The Importance of Car Seats In A County With
96% Misuse Rate - 12/09/02 C. Hearrell, Kids Plate Grant
Full-body CT Scans May Benefit Only Select Group
According to Study by UCSD Radiologist - 12/05/02
G. Casola, full-body computed tomography (CT) scan
UCSD's Owen Clinic Celebrates
20 Years with Successful Gala/Fundraiser - 11/27/02
UCSD Medical Center Has Been
Providing a Home-Away-From Home
For Patient Families - 11/27/02
Higher Death Rate and Non-recovery of Kidney Function
Seen in ICU Patients Given Diuretics - 11/26/02
R. Mehta
UCSD-Led Consortium to Study Effects Of
Anti-Retroviral HIV Therapy on Nervous System Disease - 11/20/02
CHARTER (CNS HIV Anti-Retroviral Therapy Effects Research), I. Grant
UCSD & County Mental Health to Collaborate on Intervention and
Services Research for Older Adults with Psychotic Disorders - 11/18/02 - D.
Jeste, Center for Community-based Research in Older People with Psychoses, schizophrenia
Self-Management
Program Proves Beneficial For Macular Degeneration Patients - 11/11/02
S. Brown
UCSD Breaks Ground on World-Class Cancer Center
Facility - 11/08/02
Image
of Rat Cerebellum Wins 1st Place For UCSD Medical
Research Associate - 11/07/02
T.
Deerinck
UCSD
Health Sciences Faculty Excellence Awards -
11/06/02
S.Taylor, D. Richman, E. Holmes, M. Wallace, K. Barrett, D.Easter, E.Ziegler
Comparison of Hormone Replacement Therapies Finds Progesterone Causes Less
Bleeding than the Most Commonly Used Treatment - 10/31/02 HRT, R. Langer
Brain Images From Patients with Schizophrenia
Will be Shared in First Nationwide Imaging Network - 10/29/02
M. Ellisman, General Clinical Research Center
It's
colorless, it's odorless, it's everywhere and it's out to get you. It's
a virus. - 10/24/02
San
Diego's Best Doctors List Includes 78 UCSD Physicians - 10/15/02
15th
Lopiccola Marlin Tournament Pushes Total Contributions to Cancer
Center to Over $1 Million 10/21/02
UCSD
Cancer Researchers Develop New Anti-Leukemia Strategy - 10/21/02
E. Ball, adoptive immunotherapy or cellular therapy, UCSD Moores Cancer
Center
Preliminary Study Shows High-Dose Coenzyme Q10
Slows Functional Decline in Parkinson's Disease Patients
- 10/14/02 - C. Shults
Lack of Natural 'Antibiotics' in the Skin
May Explain Infections in Dermatitis Patients - 10/09/02
R. Gallo, atopic dermatitis, eczema, inflammatory skin diseases,psoriasis
UCSD Study Shows Smokers' Quitlines Work
- 10/02/02
General
Contractor Named for Moores UCSD Cancer Center Building - 9/30/02
Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., Named Founding Dean Of New
UCSD Pharmacy School - 9/24/02
Southern California's First
Public Pharmacy School Opens This Week at UCSD - 9/24/02
Robert
Resnik, M.D., Elected
Honorary Fellow of British Royal College - 9/23/02
UCSD's
Senior Behavioral Health Program
Relocates to Specially Designed Floor at Hillcrest Hospital -
9/12/02
D. Jeste,D. Sewell, depression, dementia with agitation or psychosis, delirium, schizophrenia,
bipolar disease, or substance abuse
Moores UCSD
Cancer Center Study: OTC
Sales of Smoking Cessation Aids Up, Effectiveness Down - 9/10/02
J. Pierce, E. Gilpin
UCSD Team Identifies Potential Role of CRP
In Development of Atherosclerosis - 9/9/02
M.K. Chang, J. Witztum, "bad cholesterol"
Two "Firsts" Among UCSD School of Medicine Incoming Students
- 9/4/02
Molecular Mechanism Underlying Anthrax Infection
Described By UCSD School Of Medicine Researchers - 8/29/02
M. Karin, macophages, B. anthracis, Bacillus anthracis
UCSD Professor Explains How Elephants Are Able To Snorkel -
8/27/02
J. West
Researchers Find Vitamins Can
Create Sustained Protection Against Repeat Blockage Of Coronary Arteries -
8/27/02
Guido Schnyder,vitamin B-6, coronary angioplasty
2nd Annual Diversity Symposium
To Focus on Medical Discovery - 8/26/02
Ancient Fossils Help UCSD Researchers Determine
Date That Humans Genetically Diverged From Apes - 8/2602
A. Varki, E. Muchmore, UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center
Moores UCSD Cancer Center Researchers
Identify Potent Angiogenesis Inhibitor - 8/18/02
parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP), J. Varner
Tom McAfee, M.D., Named UCSD's First
Physician In Chief - 8/8/02
UCSD Study Shows Increased
Transmission
Of Drug-Resistant HIV Infection - 8/7/02
D. Richman, S. Little
UCSD Researchers Determine Location & Extent
Of p53 Mutations in Rheumatoid Arthritis - 7/29/02
G. Firestein, N. Zvaifler
15TH
Annual Lopiccola Marlin Tournament To Benefit Moores UCSD Cancer Center -
8/19/02
UCSD
Researchers Discover Enzyme Defective in Bleeding Abnormality -
7/24/02
J. Marth, sialytranferase ST3GAl-IV, von Willebrand factor (VWF), abnormal bleeding
UCSD's Lawrence
Goldstein
Elected Secretary Of American Society for Cell Biology - 7/24/02
UCSD Researchers Identify Eye-Formation Strategy
in Mice
That Provides Clues to Development of Other Organs - 7/23/02M.G. Rosenfeld, X. Li, sine ooculis/6 (Six6)
UCSD Researchers Develop Gene Therapy
To Successfully Halt Heart Failure in Animals - 7/21/02
phospholamban (PLN), theraputic gene, molecular delivery system, K. Chien, M. Hoshijima
UCSD Center for Functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dedicated - 7/16/02
R. Buxton, R. Dynes, E. Holmes
UCSD
Healthcare 17th Annual Staff Dinner Dance - 7/15/02
Fight Against Mitochondrial Disease Continues
With 4 Annual UCSD Christini Fund Golf Tournament - 6/20/02
UCSD's
Victor Nizet, M.D., Receives Pediatric Infectious Diseases Award - 6/19/2002
Summer Weather Brings More Than Sunburns --Youths And Fire Hazards
- 6/13/02
D. Lozano, UCSD Regional Burn Center
UCSD
Healthcare and the California Poison Control System offer these summertime tips
to help keep the season safe - 6/13/02 R. Clark
UCSD
School of Medicine to Graduate 96 New Physicians - 6/03/02
UCSD Specialists Named America's Top Doctors
- 5/29/02
S. Wasserman, R. Haas, D. Trauner, E. Ball, S. Garfin, K.L. Jones, A. Catanzaro, A. Ries, L. Rubin, S Seagren, K. Valji, D.
Hoyt
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
Treats
1st Patient on Phase II Gene-Therapy Trial - 5/22/02
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), W. Saville, T. Kipps, gene therapy
UCSD Professor, Jeffrey Harris,
M.D., Is President-Elect Of American Otological Society - 5/16/02
National MRI Expert Named
New Chair
Of UCSD Department of Radiology - 5/14/02
William G. Bradley, radiology
Dr. Gary Firestein Named Chair
of FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee - 5/13/02
UCSD Offers Clinical Trials for Patients
With Mental Health Disorders - 5/10/02
UCSD Faculty Elected to Membership
In Prestigious Professional Organizations - 5/10/02
AAP, ASCI, S. Bozette, G. firestein, A. Wynshaw-Boris, K. Kaushansky
In Memoriam: Robert Livingston, M.D.,1918-2002; Pioneered Human Brain Mapping
- 4/30/02
Researchers Show Beneficial Role of Bacterial DNA
In Fighting Inflammatory Bowel Disease - 4/29/02
IBD, E. Raz, hygiene hypothosis
Cancer Center Study Shows State's
Workplace
Smoking Laws Are Effective - 04/24/02
E. Gilpin, California Tobacco Surveys
NIH-Funded UCSD Rheumatic Diseases Center
To Facilitate Collaboration, Speed Discoveries - 04/23/02
G. Silverman, arthritis, fibromyalgia, systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE), scleroderma, gout
New Post-Genomic Technique
Provides Real-Time, Multiscale Look At Protein Life Cycles in Living Cells -
04/18/02
M. Ellisman, R. Tsien, multiscale molecular tagging technology
Ginko Biloba Slows Cognitive
Decline In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis- 04/18/02
J. Corey-Bloom,C. Kenney, M.Norman
Avon Foundation Awards Moores UCSD Cancer Center
$500,000 for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction, Prevention - 04/17/02
UCSD Professor Wins 2002 Heineken Prize For
Biochemistry - 04/15/02R. Tsien
Enzyme Halts Muscle Waste In Mouse Models
Of Most-Common Childhood Muscular Dystrophy - 04/15/02
P. Martin,
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
Researchers Uncover Brain Patterns That Differentiate Humans From Chimpanzees
- 04/08/02
Ajit Varki,UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center, gene expression
Study: Helping Couples Cope With Prostate Cancer
- 04/08/02
UCSD Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, Georgia Robbins Sadler, prostate cancer, outreach
Tests Reveal Subtle Signs of Alzheimer's Before Clinical Symptoms Appear
- 04/05/02
Alzheimer's Disease, ADRC, Mark Jacobson, Dean Delis, Mark Bondi, VA, psychology
Sleep Patterns & Fatigue
In Breast Cancer Patients The Focus Of Moores UCSD Cancer Center Study -
04/02/02
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., Sleep Disorders Clinic, Joel Dimsdale, M.D., Vicky Jones, M.D.
Dr. Stephen Stahl To Receive International Prize
For Education in Psychiatry and Neurology - 03/26/02
Lundbeck International Neuroscience Foundation (LINF) 2002 Prize for Education
in Psychiatry and Neurology
$1.6 Million Award Funds Partnership for
Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act Assistance - 03/22/02
Psychiatry, Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, (SACPA), California Endowment, David Deitch, Ph.D.
UCSD Team Reviews Pituitary Gland Development,
From a Common Primordium to Distinct Cell Types - 03/22/02
anterior pituitary gland, M. Geoffrey Rosenfeld, M.D., Kathleen Scully, Ph.D.
National Foundation Honors Dilip V. Jeste
For Schizophrenia Research In Elderly - 03/18/02
Researchers Develop First Oral Drug To
Treat Smallpox Infection - 03/11/02
US Army, smallpox, Karl Hostetler M.D., James Beadle, Ph.D., Endocrine and Metabolism Clinic
Molecular Researchers to Link Heart
& Brain Puzzle Pieces at UCSD, Salk and Nature Medicine Conference
March 13-16
Kenneth Chien, IMM, Salk, Nature, molecular medicine
UCSD’s
John West, M.D., Ph.D. Receives Top Award
From
American Thoracic Society - 02/28/02
UCSD-TV Awarded $300,000 March Of Dimes Grant To Develop
Preconception And Prenatal Health Education Programs - UCSD School of Medicine Faculty to be Featured Health Experts
- 02/25/02
T. Moore, K.L. Jones, C. Rock
UCSD Stroke Center Named
One of Nation’s Best for Stroke Treatment
- 2/20/02
P. Lyden, University Health System Consortium, UHC, stroke
Pete Lopiccola Cancer Research Foundation
Makes Gift To UCSD Cancer Center - 02/19/02
D. Tarin, C. Faith, leukemia, For Pete's Sake, marlin tournament
UCSD Researchers Find Raloxifene Is Not Associated With Early
Cardiovascular Harm And
May Offer Benefit To Women At Increased Cardiovascular Risk - 2/15/02
E. Barrett-Connor, Family and Preventive Medicine, postmenopausal women, MORE study, Raloxifene,
osteoporosis
UCSD Pediatrician Named as An Editor to
New Medical Journal - 2/12/02
M. Stein, Journal Watch, pediatrics
SIRA
Spring Opening - 02/12/02
T. Patterson, R. Sah, schizophrenia, bioengineering
UCSD's Theodore Friedmann Named Chair of
NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee - 02/11/02
T. Friedmann, RAC, NIH, Biomedical Ethics
Sleep less, live longer? Increased Death Rate Associated
With Sleeping 8 Hours or More - 02/08/02
D. Kripke, sleep, Psychiatry
Prominent UCSD, Salk Researchers to
Discuss Politics and Sciences of Embryonic Stem Cell Research - 02/05/02
T. Friedmann, F. Gage, F. Levine, P. Mellon, DNA, stem-cell
State of the Health Sciences
- 02/02/02 E. Holmes, School of Medicine, Health Sciences
Gene "Rusty" A. Kallenberg,
M.D. Named Division Chief of UCSD Family Medicine - 1/31/02
G. Kallenberg, Family Medicine
Unusual Patient Cases Help UCSD Researchers Link Toxin To Development of
“Flesh-Eating” Bacterial Infections- 1/10/02
V. Nizet, streptococcal, necrotizing faxciitis, SLS, toxic shock
syndrome
UCSD Announces New Chair of
Medicine - 01/10/02
K. Kaushansky, hematology, Blood,
New Skin Patch Treatment for ADD/ADHD To be Tested in UCSD Medical Center
Trial - 01/10/02
D. Feifel, Ritalin, ADHD, neuropsychiatry, behavioral medicine
Protein Crucial for Elastic Fiber Development
Described by UCSD School of Medicine Researchers - 01/09/02
T. Nakamura, K. Chien, arteries, elastin, molecular medicine
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