A Sampling of Clips for 
March 2, 2006

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Drug-Resistant Staph Tops Group’s ‘Hit List’
ABC News, March 2 -- Once confined to hospitals, dangerous staph infections are cropping up in many other places where people interact in close quarters — schools, prisons and sports teams. What's most alarming to health professionals is that as the bug mutates, it grows more resistant to the few antibiotics left that can still treat it. (Quotes Dr. Victor Nizet of UCSD’s School of Medicine.) More

Is Wikipedia
Making Encyclopedia Britannica Obsolete?
KPBS, March 1 -- Wikipedia has become the world's largest living reference work, written and edited by the public. Host Tom Fudge talks with Pat Neill, chief technology officer at UCSD, and Jim Jacobs, data services librarian at UCSD about the Wikipedia phenomenon. More

Major AIDS Crisis
May Hit Tijuana, Report Says
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2 -- Tijuana, long thought to have a relatively small prevalence of HIV infection, is on the cusp of an alarming AIDS outbreak rivaling those experienced by many major U.S. cities, including San Diego, with as many as one in 125 people ages 15 to 49 now infected. That's the conclusion of a new report from UCSD and Mexican researchers, who predict a public health crisis in Tijuana if steps aren't taken quickly.(Quotes Steffanie Strathdee, chief of UCSD's division of international health and cross-cultural medicine and the principal author of the report.) More

Hope in a Hopeless Neighborhood
Voice of San Diego, March 2 – Nativity Prep Academy is a catholic college prep school for at-risk children. Seeing a need for change, NPA Founder David Rivera took the steps to bring about an educational revolution in 2001. He found that by opening the nonprofit middle school, area kids could get a private school education -- for free. Bringing together a group of his friends from UCSD, and Notre Dame, to develop a plan, Rivera said they all came to the same conclusion, "to open up an amazing nonprofit school that would have a huge impact on people's lives." More

Patients, Be Aware On-Line
Wilmington Advocate, March 2 -- Eight in 10 Internet surfers use the Web to find information about health issues, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That equates to about 95 million people. Nowadays, physicians often find patients arriving for their appointments with a possible diagnosis in hand or treatment options suggested by a Web site, said Dr. David Bazzo, associate clinical professor of family medicine at UCSD School of Medicine. More

Student Sweatshop
Protest Gets ‘Naked for Justice’
KFMB TV8, March 2 -- Wearing signs, banners and not much else, about two dozen UCSD students marched to the campus bookstore Wednesday to protest what they say is the school’s sale of sweatshop goods. The group disrobed down to their underwear, claiming they couldn’t find any clothing in the bookstore that wasn’t made in a sweatshop. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Body Parts Case Has Local Links
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2 -- Donor tissue from a New Jersey company whose owner is charged with stealing body parts from cadavers has ended up in several transplant recipients in San Diego County. None of the patients – two from UCSD Medical Center and “less than 10” from Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego and Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa – have shown any signs of harm, officials at both institutions said. More

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TV 10 News
NBC San Diego

New Leadership
for Network Research at UCSD
Campus Technology, March 2 -- Computer scientist Amin Vahdat has taken the reins as director of UCSD’s Center for Networked Systems. Vahdat is also an academic participant in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. More