A Sampling of Clips for 
February 05 - 07, 2005

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Some Hospitals Met Nurse Ratios
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 6-Though the hospital industry has insisted it was all but financially impossible to meet the state's strict nurse-to-patient ratios, a number of hospitals have been able to do it without breaking their budgets. One of those hospitals was UCSD Medical Center. More

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KTLA, Feb. 6

Arid Arizona Points to
Global Warming as Culprit
Washington Post, Feb. 6-Dramatic weather changes in the West -- whether it is Arizona's decade-long drought or this winter's torrential rains in Southern California -- have pushed some former skeptics to re-evaluate their views on climate change. (Refers to research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Syntax of a Pristine Language
Washington Post, Feb. 7-A language created by Bedouin tribes in Israel's Negev and uncorrupted by other tongues might give linguists and psychologists a "peep-hole into the workings of the human mind," finds a study co-authored by Carol Padden of UCSD. More

Similar articles appeared in:
Corriere della Sera (in Italian), Feb. 6
Middle East Times, Feb. 2
Arizona Republic, Feb. 5
Deaf Today, Feb. 3
SonntagsZeitung (Switzerland, in German), Feb. 6

Report Finds Lax
Oversight of UC Cadaver Programs
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5-The thefts that shut UCLA's willed-body program could occur at other schools without safeguards to prevent wrongdoing, study says. (Mentions research by UCSD.) More

Planning, Funding
Separate Bayou City from Biotech Cities
Houston Chronicle, Feb. 6-In the last 25 years, the biotech industry has matured across the country from a handful of startups to $40 billion in annual revenue. Partly because of bad luck and partly because of poor organization, Houston is well behind several U.S. metro areas, say some economists and the city's medical leaders. (Mentions research at UCSD.) More

Researchers: Cancers,
Other Illnesses Stem From
Structures that Provide Cells Energy
Miami Herald, Feb. 3-Doug Wallace, a researcher at UC Irvine, recently held a seminar about the potential of mitochondrion research to a group of students and faculty at UCSD. (Quote by Immo Scheffler, a professor of biology at UCSD.) More

Same article appeared in:
Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 3
Monterey Herald, Feb. 3
Kentucky Herald, Feb. 3

Statins Have Risk
Austin News Channel 8, Feb. 5-Although statin drugs are highly effective at lowering cholesterol, they still pose risks. Dr. Beatrice Golomb, from UCSD, heads up one of the largest studies of its kind to look at the side effects of statin drugs. More

Politics Could Sink
Revamped Tsunami Warning System
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 6-Driven by the suffering and destruction from the Indian Ocean tsunami and the potential for a similar calamity in the United States, the White House and Congress have moved quickly to offer plans for significantly beefing up an early-warning system to detect killer waves. (Quote by John Orcutt, deputy director for research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Spotting Whales Isn't Just a Fluke
Kentucky Herald, Feb. 5-For a good time, follow the whales. The big shots of Planet Ocean vacation in some of the world's finest locations: the warm lagoons and bays of Hawaii and Mexico in winter, the clear waters of Canada and Alaska in summer. (Quote by Shelley Glenn Lee of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Hospital Expansion to Improve Care
San Diego Channel 10 News, Feb. 6-UCSD Medical Center is planning a major expansion that could affect care in two communities. The medical center in Hillcrest has a long-range plan to move its trauma program, acute care services and inpatient beds to Thornton hospital in La Jolla. (Quote by UCSD Physician in Chief Dr. Thomas McAffe.) More

Mexico Finance Chief's
Outlook on Economy Rosy During S.D. Visit
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 5-Mexico's finance minister says Mexicans who send money back home from the United States are getting better "haircuts." During a visit to San Diego, Francisco Gil Díaz defined a "haircut" as the amount of money Mexicans pay in transaction costs to send money home through banks and other businesses. (Quote by UCSD economics professor Gordon Hanson.) More

Engineers at UCSD Working to Replicate
Structure of Mollusk Shell to Make New Armor
North County Times, Feb. 5-Abalone shells have been used for centuries for various tasks from dentures to currency. Now UCSD professor Marc Meyers has found a new potential use: bullet-stopping armor. More