A Sampling of Clips for 
May 21, 2003

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The Quest for a Cure
San Diego Magazine, May – Many recent developments have scientists and oncologists believing that the war on cancer is winnable. And to an extraordinary degree, the battles are being fought, and won, in San Diego. Under a $4.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, for example, a team from San Diego is being assembled to combat prostate cancer through a consortium of researchers and oncologists from University of California, San Diego, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, the New York-based Ludwig Institute's San Diego satellite laboratory and the V.A. San Diego Healthcare System. This is just one of dozens of collaborative efforts among San Diego’s cancer centers that are spawning even greater progress in cancer research. (Quotes Gordon Gill, a professor at UCSD School of Medicine and interim director of the UCSD Cancer Center).
http://www.sandiego-online.com/issues/may03/featured0503.shtml

4-D Ultrasound: The Latest Technology
KFMB, May 20 – University of California, San Diego Professor of Radiology Dolores Pretorius, M.D., and her husband have been developing 4-D ultrasound for the last 14 years.
4-D ultrasound captures the whole picture in a series of tiny slices using a hand piece called a transducer. The result is an incredible computer image - one that virtually allows parents to meet their baby face to face, before birth. "We're trying to use the tool mainly for diagnosis, we want to see cleft lips better, we want to look at brain abnormalities and see if we can decide exactly what's going on. Sometimes with 2-D we can see it and sometimes we just need a little bit more help," said Pretorius.
http://www.kfmb.com/healthcast/details.php?storyID=15872

Surgery found to help small percentage of emphysema patients
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 21 – According to a new study by researchers from University of California, San Diego and other institutions, surgery to remove parts of the lung in patients with severe emphysema can prolong life in a small number of patients with one type of the disease but may not help others. "We now know that the percentage of patients who are good candidates for this procedure is very small, on the order of a few percent," said Andrew Ries, M.D., UCSD's director of pulmonary rehabilitation and a principal author of the report. For the rest, there may be no benefit and some may actually be harmed. (Mentions Robert Kaplan, chair of Family/Preventive Medicine at UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_1n21lung.html

Organic chemist's contribution is essential to biological studies of aquatic chemical signaling
Research Horizons, Winter 2003 – A seaweed called Lobophora variegata has a strong antifungal potency and potentially some cancer-fighting power, according to a new study by researchers at University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Georgia Tech.
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-w03/s-key.html

Tough US response to terrorism evokes mixed feelings
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION, May 21 – Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Center of the ANU and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego discusses anti-terrorism practices. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter Masters program in terrorism at UCSD.
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