A Sampling of Clips for 
August 05, 2004

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Sea Change
MSNBC News, Aug. 5-A local activist group's three-year effort to grow giant kelp appears to be succeeding: Kelp strands are thriving in the Orange County Coastkeeper's marine forest at Crystal Cove, as well as fish and other creatures that depend on these tendrils of seaweed. Whether this artificial kelp bed - or any other - really makes a difference in the long run is a matter of doubt among experts. Paul Dayton, a marine ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, says nature has, literally, thrown cold water on kelp growing in recent years - to the kelp growers' benefit. In climate cycles involving colder water, kelp thrives. In warm-water cycles, it dies back.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5601266/

Pill Camera Give Unique View of Intestines
KFMB Channel 8, San Diego, Aug. 4-In this age of medicine, learning about your insides might be as simple as taking a pill. Of course at UCSD's Thornton Hospital the capsule you swallow comes with its own light and a camera, giving a view rarely anyone sees deep inside the small intestine. UCSD gastroenterologist Thomas Savides, has become very familiar with the pill camera lately. He recently headed up a study at the hospital, to explore its uses.
http://www.kfmb.com/healthcast/details.php?storyID=27922

Study Urges New Look at Leg Artery Ailment
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 5-Physicians who think their patients' peripheral artery disease has disappeared because they no longer suffer leg pain may be wrong. A study by UC San Diego and other researchers said the patients' disease still might exist and have progressed, despite the absence of pain. (Quote by Michael Criqui M.D., a UCSD professor of family and preventive medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040805-9999-2m5decline.html