A Sampling of Clips for August 6^th, 2008

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Medicinal Marijuana Eases Neuropathic Pain in HIV
U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 6 -- Medicinal marijuana helps relieve neuropathic pain in people with HIV, says a UCSD School of Medicine study. It included 28 HIV patients with neuropathic pain that wasn't adequately controlled by opiates or other pain relievers. More

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What’s Black and Dirty and Messing With the Climate?
Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 6 -- Soot nags at climate scientists like a child demanding a parent’s attention. While soot has played a minor role compared with the rock stars of climate change – carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases – that perspective is changing. Recent research suggests that black carbon soot must be reckoned with. (Mentions research by V. Ramanathan at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

UC Weather Data to Help Develop Energy Plan
Environmental Protection Magazine, Aug. 6 – Ten UCSD undergraduate students have designed, built, and deployed a network of five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings, identify the sunniest rooftops to expand its solar-electric system, and use water more efficiently in irrigation and in other ways. More

Chemist, Developers Test Tool for Assessing Marine Damage
Environmental Protection Magazine, Aug. 6 -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD marine chemist Andrew Dickson plans to purchase and deploy an autonomous buoy-mounted sensor to study the effect increasingly acidic ocean water could be having on ecosystems in the California Current. More

Online Stroke Diagnosis Proves Almost Perfect
Voice of San Diego, Aug. 4 -- Long-term clinical trials are usually only halted when early findings aren’t promising enough for researchers to plow ahead, but a four-year, 400-patient telemedicine study was stopped just over half-way through because of its nearly perfect success rate, according to researchers at the UCSD Medical Center. More

Perpetrator of UCSD Bomb Hoax Sentenced
La Jolla Light, Aug. 5 -- Richard Sills, 55, of La Jolla, will serve 15 months in federal custody in connection with a bomb threat he made at UCSD, announced U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt. More

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