A Sampling of Clips for March 10, 2010

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Giving May Be Contagious
NPR, March 9 -- Everything from obesity to happiness to smoking moves through social networks, so the behavior of one person can affect the lives of many others. Two of the people leading this charge are political scientist James Fowler of UCSD and internist Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School. More

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Doctors Have New Tool in Fight Against Breast Cancer
NBC2, Fort Myers, Fla., March 9 -- When a woman has breast cancer, doctors want to be sure the disease has not spread to her lymph nodes because it's one of the first places the cancer is likely to go. But now, doctors at UCSD have a faster and easier way to target those lymph nodes. More

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Fluorescent Nanoparticles Highlight Cancerous Tissue on Operating Table
MTB Europe, March 9 -- Cell-penetrating molecules carrying fluorescent and magnetic tags that stick to and light up tumors help surgeons see more of the tumour tissue on the operating table and make it visible to MRI scans. The technique was developed by a team of researchers at  UCSD  and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. The technique enabled scientists to spot and remove more cancerous tissue in mice injected with the fluorescent probes than in those mice without the fluorescent probes, increasing survival five-fold. More

Caught Between a Rock and a Deep Place
Sydney Morning Herald, March 10 – To the Mexican people, one of the great achievements in their history was the day that their president kicked out foreign oil companies in 1938. Thus, March 18 is a civic holiday. Yet today, that 72-year-old act has put Mexico in a straitjacket, one that threatens both the welfare of the country and the oil supply of the United States. (Quotes Jeremy Martin, director of the energy program at the Institute of the Americas at UCSD) More

Doctor Develops Spray That Stops Nosebleeds
ABC12, San Antonio, Texas, March 9 -- According to Dr. Terrence Davidson of UCSD, most nosebleeds are distracting but go away after a few drops. Imagine having a nosebleed every day of your life, but instead of a few drops, it's a few pints of blood. That's reality for people with H.H.T., a genetic disorder that affects blood vessels. It impacts one out of every 2,000 people in the U.S. and more than 6 million people world-wide. More

Athletes' Community at UCSD a Safe Haven
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 10 -- I wanted to ask UCSD Athletics Director Earl Edwards, who oversees more than 500 athletes at a university where black enrollment stands at about 2 percent, how the situation was affecting the outstanding NCAA Division II program he helped build in his 10 years on campus. More

Keeping Tabs on Biological Clocks
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 -- Scientists have discovered that biological clocks of all kinds govern the well-being and behavior of remarkably diverse forms of life, from bacteria and plants to mice and men. These rhythms are so ubiquitous and important that UCSD is establishing a new Center for Chronobiology, launching it today with an on-campus symposium that brings together experts from around the nation for two days of talks. More

Certificate Programs Growing at UCSD
North County Times, March 9 -- Certificate programs at UCSD Extension have grown 44 percent over the past three years, the university said. More

UCSD Medical Hopes New Chief Will Increase Neuro Expertise
The San Diego Daily Transcript, March 9 -- The UCSD Medical Center has named a world-renowned neurosurgeon and scientist as its new chief of the division of neurosurgery, in hopes of developing a specialty in neurological disorders. More

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