A Sampling of Clips for
April 28, 2004
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Gene
Therapy Appears to Slow Alzheimer's, Research Finds
Los Angeles Times, April 28-A preliminary
study at UC San Diego has found promising signs
that using gene therapy to introduce nerve growth factor into
the brain may retard the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
The team, led by Mark H. Tuszynski M.D., studied
five women and three men, with an average age of 70, who were
in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The study focused
on determining the safety of the procedure and not its effectiveness.
But in the process, the researchers found that the treatment
delayed progression of the disease by 40% to 50% for at least
two years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-alzheimers28apr28,1,4883402.story
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articles appeared in:
Newsday, April 28
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsalz283776967apr28,0,557544.story
Reuters,
April 27
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27641769.htm
MSNBC,
April 28
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4853235/
BBC News,
April 28
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3662231.stm
Daily Telegraph (London),
April 28
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No link available online.
San Francisco Chronicle,
April 28
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/28/MNGMK6C43C1.DTL
Seattle Times,
April 28
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2001914435_alzheimers28.html
Pittsburg Post-Gazette,
April 28
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04119/307623.stm
Baltimore Sun,
April 28
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.alzheimers28apr28,0,3633465.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
WebMD, April
28
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/86/98955.htm
?z=1728_00000_1000_nb_04
San Diego Union-Tribune,
April 28
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040428-9999-lz1c28alzheim.html
SD Neurosciences Prize
City News Service, April 27-One of
the nation's highest honors in neurosciences, the Potamkin Prize,
will be awarded today to Leon Thal M.D. of
the UC San Diego School of Medicine. The chair
of the UCSD Department of Neurosciences was
selected for his achievements in research of Alzheimer's and
related neurodegenerative diseases, according to the American
Academy of Neurology, which announced the recipients in March.
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No link available online.
UCSD professor
wins Guggenheim Fellowship
North County Times, April 27-Russell
Impagliazzo, professor of computer science and engineering
at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering,
won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the university announced today.
Impagliazzo was recognized for his work on
"heuristics, proof complexity and algorithmic techniques,"
according to UCSD. (Quote by Mohan
Paturi, who chairs the UCSD computer
science and engineering department.) http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/28/special
_reports/science_technology/20_43_244_27_04.txt
Illegal
Migrant Detentions Rise Sharply
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28-The
number of illegal immigrants that Border Patrol agents are catching
along the nation's southern border is up 25 percent from a year
ago and rose almost 40 percent in San Diego County. Some immigration
experts cite the rise as proof that word of President Bush's
proposed new immigration policy has prompted a cross-border
rush by Mexican migrants. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius,
director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at
UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20040428-9999-1n28migrant.html
Colleges
Say Visa Tracking Improved but 'Kinks' Remain
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28-A
new visa database keeps better tabs on foreign students and
researchers but the federal program is still plagued by technical
problems, San Diego college representatives told a Homeland
Security official yesterday. Representatives from nine Southern
California colleges and universities, including San Diego State
University and the University of California, San Diego,
voiced their concerns yesterday in a closed-door meeting in
San Diego with Michael Garcia, an assistant secretary with the
Department of Homeland Security. (Quote by Michael Hindi,
the associate director of the UCSD International
Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040428-9999-2m28foreign.html
ProFusion
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28-Although
cold fusion has had a rocky past, last month the Department
of Energy announced that it would review the credibility and
claims of cold fusion research, which never really disappeared.
Elsewhere scientists are making progress in the area of hot
fusion, one example is the construction of a $5 billion reactor
- the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER
- that would create fusion energy by heating hydrogen atoms
to 200 million degrees. The ITER project, which includes the
active participation of scientists at the University
of California, San Diego and General Atomics in San
Diego, is slated to be built in either Japan or France by 2013
and to achieve self-sustained nuclear fusion by 2017.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040428/news_lz1c28fusion.html
