A Sampling of Clips for
January 15, 2004
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Researchers
Try to Cut New Path to Pharmacy
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12-Many
of new drugs that are being developed over the last few years
by scientists, will never reach the public because of the high
costs of regulatory FDA approval. A growing number of universities
and hospitals are moving beyond basic science and into limited
drug development in an attempt to provide companies with compounds
that are less likely to stumble on the road to FDA approval.
In August, the University of California, San Diego,
along with other top institutions, launched PharmaStart, a consortium
intended to accelerate the translation of new compounds from
discovery into clinical use. (Quote by Edward Holmes,
UCSD's vice chancellor for health sciences.)
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San Diego
Women Find Top Jobs Hard to Get
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 15-Though
professional women are advancing in San Diego's workplace, it's
anything but ladies first when it comes to corporate boards
and executive offices. San Diego lags well behind the national
average for women in leadership positions, according to a study
released yesterday by UCSD Athena, a local
organization for executive women in science and technology.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/business/news_1b15women.html
County Housing
Prices on a Tear in '03
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 15-San
Diego County housing prices soared 17.3 percent in 2003, ending
the year with a median above $400,000 for the first time. The
booming market, which also saw the highest number of sales in
14 years, hit price records in every category - resale houses,
resale condominiums and newly built homes. (Quote by UCSD
economist Ross Starr.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040115-9999_1n15prices.html
Analysis:
Climate of Hate in 2004 Contest
United Press International, Jan. 14-As
America rolls deeper into the election cycle the motto "E
Pluribus Unum" -- out of many, one -- appears more fiction
than fact than at any time since the end of the Vietnam War.
Public opinion polls show a deep divide in society and the body
politic over homosexual nuptials, abortion, gun ownership, the
role of religion in their lives and war in Iraq. (Quote by Gary
Jacobson, a political science professor at the University
of California, San Diego.)
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Problems
Seen with New Coronary Bypass Device
Reuters, Jan. 15-A recently introduced
surgical device intended to improve coronary artery bypass surgery
seems to be linked to a high rate of heart attacks or severe
angina in the six months after the procedure. The Symmetry Bypass
Connector was designed to connect the bypass veins to the aorta
without sutures, explain the authors, who are based at the University
of California-San Diego in La Jolla. The team had used
320 of the devices in 121 patients during 263 coronary bypass
surgeries.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4128921
Summit Offers
Opportunity to Share Ideas, Mend Fence
San Antonio Express-News (Texas),
Jan. 14-During a whirlwind summit that wrapped up Tuesday, 32
leaders from the length of the Western Hemisphere pushed their
visions for the future, but President Bush concentrated on mending
the fences closest to home. Bush spent the two-day Summit of
the Americas promoting a proposed immigration accord vital to
Mexico and invited Canada, another nation that opposed him on
Gulf War II, to bid on contracts to rebuild Iraq. (Quote by
Erik Lee, assistant director for the Center
for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California
at San Diego.)
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlc=1113558
