A Sampling of Clips for
November 8th, 2007
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Injecting Stem Cells Sparks Progress in Repairing Heart
USA Today, Nov. 8 - Researchers from Finland and California showed it is possible to inject heart attack patients with muscle stem cells and boost their hearts' pumping power. "If we can do this, we are going to see a complete revolution in medicine, how we treat heart disease and heart attacks," says Nabil Dib of the UCSD Medical Center. More
Sleepless? Maybe It's Your Statin
FOX News, Nov. 7 – A popular drug used to keep cholesterol in check might be interfering with a good night's sleep, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. "The findings are significant because sleep problems can affect the quality of life and may have adverse health consequences, such as promoting weight gain and insulin resistance," Dr. Beatrice Golomb, of the UCSD School of Medicine, said in a statement. More
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Area Hospitals Practice Disaster Preparedness
San Diego Union-Tribune, Letters to the Editor, Nov. 8 - While disaster preparedness is an ongoing effort, it is important to note the tremendous progress San Diego has made in addressing many of the issues raised by the report since disaster planning became a national imperative after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Written by Richard Liekweg, CEO of the UCSD Medical Center) More
A, My Name Is Alice: Moniker Madness
Newsweek, Nov. 7 - In what they call “moniker maladies,” a pair of researchers find that although no baseball player wants to strike out, players whose names begin with K (scorecard shorthand for a strikeout) fan more often than other players. Before we get to whether this is real, a little more detail on what Leif Nelson of UCSD, and Joseph Simmons of Yale University found in a study to be published next month in the journal Psychological Science. More
Fishlike Creature Glows in the Dark
MSNBC, Nov. 8 - Researchers at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that the bodies of amphioxus, also called lancelets, contain green fluorescent proteins that could act as a sunscreen or stress shield that protects the animals from environmental changes. More
Body of Work
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 8 - An explosion of new research is vastly changing scientists' understanding of diabetes and giving new clues about how to attack it. The fifth leading killer of Americans, with 73,000 deaths a year, diabetes is a disease in which the body's failure to regulate glucose, or blood sugar, can lead to serious and even fatal complications. (Quotes Dr. Jerrold M. Olefsky of the UCSD School of Medicine) More
Another Human-smuggling Boat Found
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 8 - The discovery of a dilapidated 20-foot pleasure boat on a Del Mar beach early yesterday is just the latest instance of a suspected human-smuggling boat turning up abandoned along the county's coastline. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More
Greek Tragedy, Comedy Brought Colorfully to Life at Two Local Theaters
North County Times, Nov. 7 - Fans of classic Greek theater have had much to feast on during the past five years. UCSD classics and theater professor Marianne McDonald has translated and adapted numerous works by Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes that have been produced at theaters all over San Diego. More