A Sampling of Clips for 
March 24, 2006

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New Program Aims to Improve Survival
from Cardiac Arrest and Severe Trauma
National Institutes of Health News, March 24 -- Most cardiac arrest victims die before they reach the hospital, and traumatic injury is a top killer in North America. With the launch of a massive research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal and Canadian agencies, scientists hope to learn the best ways to improve survival chances from cardiac arrest and severe trauma. (Project includes The UCSD-San Diego Resuscitation Research Center, coordinated by UCSD and principal investigator Dr. David Hoyt.) More

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All in Your Head?
Wall Street Journal, March 17 -- If asthma is a disease of the airways, why were volunteers with the disease undergoing functional MRI scans of their brains? Psychological stress has long been known to make asthma worse. Undergraduates with the disease suffer worse symptoms during final exams, for example. But exactly how anxiety can leave the gray matter and get down to the airways has been a mystery. (Quotes UCSD researcher Scott Matthews.) More

UCI Medical Center on Transplant Probation
Los Angeles Times, March 24 -- The national group that oversees organ transplants placed UCI Medical Center on probation Thursday after a scandal that closed its liver transplant program, but stopped short of a more severe penalty that could have closed other transplant services. (Mentions Dr. Marquis Hart and UCSD.) More

Accelerating Data
Transport Over Hybrid Networks
HPC Wire, March 24 -- As a number of large-scale, multinational experiments prepare to go online in the next 2-3 years, a new generation of data retrieval and transmission techniques and tools will be required. The data yielded by these experiments will be prolific, and a diverse, globally distributed community of scientists will be eager to acquire and explore this data. (Mentions UCSD, Calit2, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.) More

New Ways to Help Ease Back Pain
News 14 Carolina, March 24 -- Eight out of 10 of us will have back pain sometime in our lives. Each year, about 500,000 Americans will have surgery to ease that pain. It's a last resort for most people, and it's never an easy decision to make. Now, doctors are uncovering new ways to relieve the pain without going under the knife. "Our new surgical tools are going to be a needle and a syringe," said UCSD neurosurgeon William Taylor, M.D. More

Remembering History
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 24 – In 1931, Mexican families angry because their children were barred from attending the Lemon Grove Grammar School sued the school district's board of trustees. The case continues to be discussed in classrooms and forums. Now it also is the basis of an award-winning play, which is to be performed at the historical society's event tonight. (Keynote speaker at event will be Robert R. Alvarez Jr., professor of ethnic studies at UCSD and son of the lead plaintiff in the case.) More