A Sampling of Clips for October 15^th, 2008

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B Vitamins Fail to Slow Alzheimer's Decline
MSNBC, Oct. 15 -- High doses of B vitamins failed to slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, dashing the hopes for a new weapon against the fatal, mind-robbing ailment, U.S. researchers led by UCSD scientist Paul Aisen, said on Tuesday. More

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Smoking Makes You Old Before Your Time
The Washington Post, Oct. 15 -- Everyone knows smoking isn't good for you, but now Finnish researchers report that men who smoke not only die younger but they have a poorer quality of life than those who never smoked. (Quotes Dr. David M. Burns, a professor of medicine at UCSD, and author of an accompanying journal editorial) More

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That Nobel Glow
CBC, Canada, Oct. 11 -- The Nobel prizes were awarded this week, and the prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Osamu Shimomura, Dr. Martin Chalfie, and UCSD researcher Dr. Roger Y. Tsien, for, according to the Nobel committee, "the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein." (Program also features an interview with UCSD political scientist James Fowler about the influence of genetics on our political choices) More

Wriggling Away From Cancer
Popular Science, Oct. 10 -- “Cancer treatments have hit a wall,” says chemist Michael J. Sailor of UCSD. Today’s chemotherapy drugs leave the body too quickly, and both chemo and radiation kill healthy cells indiscriminately, he explains. So he has developed “nanoworms,” strings of iron-oxide particles that could swim through your blood to kill nascent cancerous tumors—and nothing else. More

UCSD and Public Service
KUSI, Oct. 14 – UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox talks about the university’s public service mission and forecasts by UCSD political scientists for the upcoming presidential election. More

Straining to Avoid the Flu
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 14 -- By his own admission, UCSD's Dr. Bill Norcross is “one of those people” – seemingly overzealous in his efforts to protect himself from getting or transmitting the flu. More

Red to Blue
CW6, Oct. 13 -- San Diego has always been considered a red county, traditionally Republican. But that may soon change. CW6 reporter John Mattes interviews UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser and UCSD student Lisa Chen about this issue. More

Nobel Honors
KUSI, Oct. 15 – The San Diego County Board of Supervisors honored UCSD professor Roger Tsien, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering fluorescent protein and developing a way to use it to look inside of cells. More

Race, Elections and San Diego
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 14 -- The New York Times has this front page story today about a nationwide shift in support of more black elected officials, even in areas that are predominantly white. The story references a study conducted by UCSD political scientist Zoltan L. Hajnal, author of the book "Changing White Attitudes Toward Black Political Leadership." More

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