A Sampling of Clips for 
April 11 ^th, 2007

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Bubbling Under
The Economist, April 11 -- Thilo Hoelscher, a neurologist at UCSD, is a man with a plan. His plan is to deal with strokes by blowing bubbles at them. The bubbles in question would be small enough to inject into blood vessels leading to the affected part of the brain. More

China’s Premier in Japan:
Melting Ice or Stoking Fire?
The Washington Post, Opinion, April 11 -- China’s Premier Wen Jiabao travels to Japan this week in what he is calling an “ice melting” visit, the first by a senior Chinese leader since 2000. Chinese leaders wanted nothing to do with former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi because he insisted on paying respects to Japan’s World War II dead at the Yasukuni Shrine where 14 convicted war criminals were memorialized. (Written by Susan Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, who currently serves as director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD) More

Treating War's ‘Silent Injury'
Los Angeles Times, April 11 -- At a community hospital here, doctors and therapists are working to help Marines overcome what is often called the signature injury of the Iraq war: brain trauma with no visible wounds. "It's the silent injury," said Jessica Martinez, an occupational therapist at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. "With every blast they suffer, their brain is rattling like a yolk in an egg." (Quotes Dr. Michael Lobatz, director of the rehabilitation center at Scripps-Encinitas and a clinical assistant professor at UCSD) More

Patient Safety Training Taking
Flight at UCSD Medical Center
The San Diego Daily Transcript, April 11 -- The UCSD Medical Center, along with UC Medical Centers system-wide, is teaming up with LifeWings Partners LLC to improve patient safety and risk management. More