A Sampling of Clips for 
April 09 - 11, 2005

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UCSD Opens $105M Cancer Center
KFMB, April 8-UCSD officials today celebrated the opening of the university's new $105 million, 270,000-square-foot cancer center. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 8
Voice of San Diego, April 11
North County Times, April 9

Knowing When Prescription Drugs Are Safe
ABC News, April 10-Safety tips to help consumers know their prescription drugs are safe and effective are contained in a new guide released by the Partnership for Safe Medicine, a U.S. national coalition of patient, doctor, pharmacist, industry and professional organizations. (Quote by Dr. Bryan A. Liang, co-director of the San Diego Center for Patient Safety at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

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Forbes, April 10
Health Central, April 10

Venture Money's Going South -- to San Diego
Los Angeles Times, April 10-As the tech sector shows signs of life, the wireless industry and a supportive university help the area attract start-ups and capital. (Quote by UCSD professor Irwin Jacobs, former UCSD professor of engineering.) More

Drama Queen
New York Times, Review, April 10-Book review of "Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World," written by UCSD literature professor Kathryn Shevelow. More

Bankruptcy Bill Needs Reforming
Los Angeles Times, Column, April 10-President Bush these days likes to promote his vision of an "ownership society" in which citizens take more control of their lives from the government. So why is he poised to sign what could be one of the most sweeping anti-ownership laws in years? (Quote by Michelle White, an economics professor at UCSD.) More

With Contract Talks at
Impasse, UC Workers Plan One-Day Strike
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10-Thousands of University of California cooks, janitors and other service workers across the state are preparing for a one-day strike Thursday that they hope will bring urgency and attention to troubled contract negotiations that have dragged on for nine months. At UCSD, about 500 service workers of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees say they plan to strike. More

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North County Times, April 10

Life in the Trauma Unit
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 8-In his office on the UCSD Medical Center campus in Hillcrest, housed in a small converted apartment complex on Front Street, David Hoyt speaks with the kind of even-keeled deliberation you'd expect from a seasoned surgeon and longtime administrator. More

Guidelines for Food Groups, Serving Portions
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9-Trying to figure out how many servings of food children and adults should eat a day? Dietitian Katie Bogue, with UCSD Community Pediatrics and the San Diego 5 A Day Program, says it depends. More

Silhouette on Sign of Running Family Crosses Culture to a Less Serious Side
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10-Perhaps nowhere else could such a road sign have been born. A ghostly silhouette of a mother, father and little girl running, their bodies leaning forward as if into the wind. The child's pigtails fly behind her as the family dashes across a stark yellow background, accompanied by one word: CAUTION. (Quote by Jorge Mariscal, director of the Chicano studies program at UCSD.) More

Medi-Cal Emergency
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10-Scripps Health's five hospitals plan to stop admitting Medi-Cal patients for non-emergency care in three weeks because, their officials said, the state doesn't reimburse them nearly enough to cover treatment costs. (Refers to UCSD Medical Center.) More