A Sampling of Clips for
March 29, 2006
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Model Patients
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 29 -- The patient's name is John: male, 68 years old, 165 pounds. He's a former smoker with adult-onset diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and prostate cancer, the last of which has put him here, on a gurney hooked up to an IV and monitors at the UCSD Veterans Administration Medical Center, prepped for a prostatectomy. The only thing not real about the scene is John. He's a “patient simulator,” a high-tech and surprisingly lifelike mannequin. (Quotes Dr. Ching-Rong Cheng and Dr. Piyush Patel.) More
Bush Meets Mexico’s Fox
with Immigration in Balance
Wired, March 29 -- U.S. President George W. Bush meets President Vicente Fox in Mexico this week with doubts hanging over U.S. immigration reforms both men need to lift their flagging reputations. A U.S. Senate panel approved a bill on Monday that would create a guest worker program sought by Bush, setting up a battle with Republicans in the House of Representatives who want tough security measures to dominate immigration reform. (Quotes Gordon Hanson, professor of international relations and Pacific studies at UCSD.) More
Researchers Discover
How a High-Fat Diet Causes Type 2 Diabetes
SheKnows Magazine, March 29 -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a molecular link between a high-fat, Western-style diet, and the onset of type 2 diabetes. In studies in mice, the scientists showed that a high-fat diet disrupts insulin production, resulting in the classic signs of type 2 diabetes. (Quotes Jamey Marth, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSD, and first author Kazuaki Ohtsubo.) More
Research Links
Weight Gain to Liver Problems
WNDU-TV (Indiana), March 28 -- Children in the US are becoming obese at alarming rates, and doctors are concerned about a weighty health risk. After years of abdominal pain, 14-year-old Jaclyn Borunda found the answers to her pain and fevers. She was diagnosed with severe fatty liver disease, a result of obesity. (Quotes UCSD physician Joel Lavine.) More
Researchers Accelerating
Data over Hybrid Networks
Grid Today, March 29 -- As a number of large-scale, multinational experiments prepare to go online in the next two to three 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 as partner in National Science Foundation's OptIPuter project.) More
Strings As Structural Elements?
PhysOrg.Com, March 29 -- Scientists at UCSD have devised two mathematical tools considered to be major contributions to the optimal design of a new generation of deformable bridges, buildings, shape-controllable airplane wings, radio antennas, and other alternatives to current structural technologies. Two reports will be published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures, with the first appearing in the April issue. (Quotes Robert E. Skelton, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering.) More
