UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
June 6^th, 2007

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Low Testosterone Could Kill You
ABC News, June 6 - Low testosterone may lead to a greater risk of death, according to a study presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Toronto.

Men with low testosterone had a 33 percent greater death risk over their next 18 years of life compared with men who had higher testosterone, according to the study conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor and colleagues at UCSD. More

Hot Flashes May Be Good News for Breast-Cancer Patients
CBC News, Canada, June 5 -- Hot flashes may act as positive sign for women taking drug treatment for early stage breast cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD analyzed data from 864 women with early stage breast cancer who were taking tamoxifen therapy. More

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Once Again, Benchmarks
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, June 6 -- With passage of the war funding bill, the Democratic leadership in Congress jettisoned its insistence on a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. However, the bill contains a detailed list of political reforms expected of the al-Maliki government. These benchmarks are also likely to figure in the new counterinsurgency plan soon to be released by American Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus. (Co-authored by Stephan Haggard, a professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and James Long, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, both at UCSD) More

Grants to Fund Stem Cell Labs
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 6 -- The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's governing body voted to distribute 17 grants statewide, including one for UCSD, to create shared facilities that can be used to grow and study new human embryonic stem cell lines. Some grants will also support courses on the difficult techniques of deriving the cells from days-old embryos and coaxing them to grow in a petri dish. More