A Sampling of Clips for July 18^th, 2008

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Taking Sedatives to the Streets
The Wall Street Journal, July 17 -- How should the police deal with people who are behaving in wild, dangerous ways because of profound mental illness, heavy drug use or both? (Quotes Gary Vilke, an emergency medicine specialist at UCSD and former medical director for San Diego County EMS) More

Instant Houses, Then and Now
The New York Times, July 18 -- The idea of a well-oiled assembly line churning out gleaming and affordable new houses, flooded with light and as compact as a ship’s cabin, is a well-worn Modernist fable. (Mentions UCSD Visual Arts professor Teddy Cruz) More

Solar LifePod's Day in the Sun
C/Net, July 18 -- Envision Solar, a company that converts parking lots into solar-electricity shade structures, is quickly becoming Hollywood's newest green darling. Next to the Prius, of course. Envision Solar, which employs 17 people in La Jolla, is now working with several clients to build solar parking structures, including San Diego's Wild Animal Park and UCSD, which is turning two campus parking lots solar. More

UCSD Forms New Medical Engineering Institute
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 17 -- UCSD has formed an Institute of Engineering in Medicine to speed up the development of advanced disease treatments like “nanoparticle bombs” to kill cancer, it was announced Thursday. More

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U.S. Water Polo Team Feeling Penny Pinch as Olympics Approach
Orange County Register, July 17 -- The line outside the gates of UCSD’s Canyonview Pool wrapped around two blocks and inched downhill to the folding table where the U.S. Olympic men's water polo team's donation box was quickly filling with crinkled $10 bills. More

San Diego Prepares to Respond to Mass Casualties
KPBS, July 17 – These Days host Tom Fudge interviews two doctors, Michael Sise, trauma medical director at Scripps Mercy Hospital, and Jay Doucet, director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. They teach a disaster preparedness class in which San Diego physicians, nurses and hospital administrators what it takes to deal with injury and illness on a very large scale. More

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