A Sampling of Clips for
April 26 - 28, 2003
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Accutane:
The Most Widely Prescribed Birth-Defect-Causing Medicine
Boston Globe,
Apr. 27 – Accutane, the drug used to treat severe acne,
carries the notorious distinction of being the most widely prescribed
birth-defect-causing medicine in the United States. For every
1,000 women who take Accutane for the typical half-year treatment
period, three become pregnant. Despite the dangers, Accutane
use has flourished. Today, nearly three out of 1,000 women between
the ages of 15 and 44 are Accutane users. (Quotes Dr. Ken
Lyons Jones, a birth defects specialist at the University
of California, San Diego Medical Center).
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No link available online.
Bright Light
Boosts Male Hormone
Good Housekeeping Magazine, Apr. 28
– Scientists have found exposure to bright light in the
early morning boosts levels of a pituitary hormone that increases
the male hormone testosterone. The researchers at the University
of California, San Diego, say the findings suggest
light may produce some of the same results as extra doses of
testosterone and other androgens. Study author Dr. Daniel
Kripke of UCSD says the study also
suggests women may benefit from bright light, which appears
to trigger ovulation, a process also controlled by luteinizing
hormone, the pituitary hormone under study.
http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/hb/news/article/0,,
comtex_2003_04_28_up_0000-2376-bc-healthtips~ew~xml,00.html
Article also appeared in:
United Press International, Apr. 28
Similar
article appeared in:
Hisdustan Times (India), Apr. 27
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_241510,00040002.htm
Hear the
one about the healthy ocean?
USA Today, Apr. 21 – Conservationists
are using stand-up comedy to attract public attention to declining
ocean ecosystems. The consortium asked Tom Arnold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
Bill Maher, Peter Mehlman (co-creator of Seinfeld) and Mindy
Sterling (Austin Powers) to select five spiels on the shifting-baselines
theme from more than 40 stand-up comedians to lure readers to
read up on the environment. (Quotes project director Jeremy
Jackson of UCSD's Scripps Institution
of Oceanography).
http://www.shiftingbaselines.org/news/news02.html
Ride, Sally
Ride
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Apr. 28 –
Sally Ride, the first American woman astronaut
and professor at the University of California, San Diego
was giving a talk at McKendree College in Lebanon last Wednesday.
"The space program really excites kids," Ride
said. "It excites a lot of people, but it's particularly
exciting to kids. And I think it's as fascinating to kids today
as it was to kids growing up in the late Sixties or early Seventies.
The difference is that then it was on the front page every day."
Ride's lecture concluded this year's Distinguished
Speaker Series at McKendree, which is celebrating its 175th
anniversary.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/Entertainment/News
/048563C014E387ED86256D1600097349?OpenDocument&Headline=
Ride,+Sally+Ride
Staph's
Deadly Method of Attack
HealthCentral.com, Apr. 28 –
A study from researchers at the University of California,
San Diego School of Medicine show how a staph infection
shuts down the body’s immune response. The research appears
April 28 in the outline version of the Journal of Experimental
Medicine. (Quotes Dr. Gregg Silverman, professor
at UCSD).
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=512900
Article
also appeared in:
drkoop.com, Apr. 28
Computer
world marks 10th anniversary of groundbreaking Mosaic browser
Associated Press, Apr. 27 –
Mosaic, released by the NCSA in April 1993 as free software,
became the backbone for today's Web browsers, such as Internet
Explorer and Netscape. Mosaic's lead developer, Marc Andreessen,
became one of Netscape's founders and took some of his UI colleagues
with him. "It was an accelerator for the whole Internet,"
said Larry Smarr, now the director of the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
at the University of California, San Diego.
"It sort of took the Internet to the next level of capability."
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No link available online.
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article appeared in:
sloan.com, Apr. 27
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/27/mosaic/index.html
More than
skin deep
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), Apr. 28
– Shingles, a rash triggered by a reactivated chickenpox
virus lying dormant in the body, affects an estimated 1 million
Americans annually, with this year's tally including late-night
talk show host David Letterman. Most people completely recover
from shingles in three to five weeks. But with age, the likelihood
increases that a person will suffer chronic pain for months
or even years afterward -- a condition called post-herpetic
neuralgia. "The problem with post-herpetic neuralgia is
we don't understand why and how it happens," said Dr. Michael
N. Oxman, professor of medicine and pathology at the
University of California, San Diego, who serves
on the VZV Research Foundation scientific advisory board. "It
doesn't respond well to conventional pain treatments."
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/5723130.htm
Sting Has
Little Effect On Humans
SanDiegoChannel.com, Apr. 23 –
A jellyfish, known as the by-the-wind sailor, has been turning
up again on San Diego County beaches. Sustained onshore winds
are blowing the jellyfish ashore, Bob Burhans,
a curator of fishes at the University of California,
San Diego’s Stephen Birch Aquarium in La Jolla,
told The San Diego Union-Tribune. "As soon as the winds
die down, we won't see them," Burhans
said. "They are usually found hundreds of miles offshore."
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2154180/detail.html
Digital
renaissance transforming art
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 28 –
Many students today are more comfortable perfecting their art
skills on a computer than on canvas. Art education, for centuries
the stuff of clay and paintbrushes, is being redefined by technology.
Emerging is a new medium – digital art – which often
is interactive. It has revolutionized the art world, generating
new classes, programs and majors at colleges and universities.
According to Sheldon Brown, director of the
Center for Research in Computing in the Arts at the University
of California, San Diego, the computer arts program
at UCSD is not trying create a substitute for
a paintbrush or pencil, but is striving instead to discover
the expressive and aesthetic parameters of the new art form.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030428-9999_1m28art.html
Fernandes
creates his niche here for improvised music
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 27 –
Marcos Fernandes, the head of Accretions Records and a mainstay
of the Trummerflora Collective, will stage its second annual
Spring Reverb festival this week here and in Tijuana. Founded
in 1985, Accretions was initially devoted to putting out recordings
by Burning Bridges, a World Beat band in which Fernandes drummed.
(Quotes George Lewis, a University
of California, San Diego music professor and electronic-music
pioneer who last year was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius"
Grant).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a27varga.html
Article also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Apr. 25
Writers
put down prize winner who put down the Pulitzer
San Diego Union-Tribune, OPINION,
Apr. 27 – Roger Reynolds, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer and a professor of music at University
of California, San Diego, responds to a recent article
about Pulitzer Prize winners.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a27adamslet.html
Shield of
Faith pendant had Carlsbad impetus
San Diego Union-Tribune, DIANE BELL,
Apr. 26 – "The Wheel of Fortune" will spotlight
students from SDSU, USD, University of California, San
Diego and other local colleges in two weeks.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20030426-9999_7m26bell.html
