A Sampling of Clips for November 5^th, 2008

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When Your Pain Has No Name
ABC News, Nov. 4 -- The roots of this depression even appear to transcend emotions alone. On Monday, scientists revealed additional biological clues as to why pain and depression may be so closely linked. A team of researchers led by Irina Strigo of UCSD compared brain scans of people with depression to those of 15 people who were not depressed while these subjects anticipated or experienced a painful sensation. More

North Korea Back on the Brink of Famine - Study
Reuters, Nov 4 -- North Korea has fallen into a grain deficit that has caused food prices to shoot up, its citizens to die from a lack of food and pushed the impoverished state to the brink of famine, according to a study co-authored by UCSD researcher Stephan Haggard. More

Can't Sleep? Insurers Offering Cognitive Behavior Therapy Over Pills
Newsday, Nov. 4 -- Health insurers are sometimes better known for causing sleepless nights than for creating restful ones, but in the last few months, helping consumers get a good night's sleep has become a priority for most of the top-tier U.S. health insurance companies, including WellPoint, Aetna, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente and several Blue Cross plans. (Quotes Sonia Ancoli-Israel, head of the sleep disorders clinic at UCSD) More

Ban on Preferences Succeeds
in Nebraska; Colorado Measure Remains Undecided
Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 5 -- Voters in Nebraska approved a measure that will ban affirmative-action programs based on race, gender, and national origin at public institutions, including colleges, while a similar vote in Colorado was too close to call, and Michigan residents relaxed that state’s restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD’s stem cell research program) More

First Black President Traveled Unlikely Path
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 5 – The nation's journey from selling African slaves to electing an African-American president is one marked by many detours and dead-ends, bloodshed and brutality. For those who took part in that journey – like San Diego's Rev. George Walker Smith – few dared to even dream that road would someday lead to the White House. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Zoltan Hajnal) More

Majority of San Diegans Voted for Obama
NBC San Diego, Nov. 5 -- A majority of San Diegans filled in the circle for Barack Obama Tuesday, marking a major shift in how San Diego County has voted in past presidential elections. (Mentions UCSD) More

Local Voters Brave Lines, Rain to Cast Ballots
10News, Nov. 5 -- Voters casting ballots in San Diego County Tuesday were confronted with long lines, light rain, overzealous campaigns and balky voting machines, according to election officials. (Mentions UCSD) More

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Road Tour
University Business, November 2008 -- Mark Waxman is one of those alumni who had left his college days behind. After graduating from UCSD, in 1970 with an economics degree, he went on to the UC Berkeley School of Law and then lived in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., before moving to Boston a decade ago. More

The Presidency and the Economy
NBC San Diego, Nov. 3 – What impact will a new administration in the White House have in the short term and the long run? Revive an economy that is in distress while managing whatever  comes his was in the foreign policy front. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

UCSD Receives $5.4M NIH Grant for Alzheimer's Treatment Clinical Trial
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 4 -- Ceregene Inc., a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company, announced that UCSD has received a $5.4 million grant from the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health to support a phase 2 clinical study of Ceregene's CERE-110, a gene therapy product designed to deliver nerve growth factor for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. More

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