A Sampling of Clips for
September 6th, 2007
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Small Business Owners Go Back to School
Business Week, Sept. 6 -- As the fall semester begins at colleges and universities across the country, thousands of small business owners will be among the students. Many people who run their own companies realize they need to learn more about finance, marketing and managing, and so they decide to squeeze courses into their already tight schedules. (Mentions UCSD) More
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FDA Panel Backs New AIDS Drug
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 6 -- A federal advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended accelerated approval for a new AIDS drug designed to treat the increasing number of patients with drug-resistant strains of the virus. (Quotes Dr. Richard Haubrich, a professor of medicine at UCSD) More
British Regulators May Allow Creation of Hybrid Embryos
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 6 -- Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators said Wednesday that they were prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments. (Quotes Lawrence Goldstein, director of the stem cell program at UCSD) More
More Vitamin D Could Mean Fewer Cancers: Study
WBUR, Boston, Mass., Sept. 5 -- Thousands of cases of breast and colon cancers might be averted each year if people in colder climates raised their vitamin D levels, UCSD researchers estimate in a new report. More
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40 Under Forty
San Diego Metropolitan, September 2007 – The magazine once again recognizes the region’s exceptional young business and civic leaders, including two UCSD doctors. Amanda Gosman Has is a plastic surgeon at UCSD Medical Center and Children’s Hospital specializing in cleft lip and palate microsurgery. Edward Mariano is the director of Regional Anesthesia at UCSD, who practices and teaches nerve-blocking techniques to numb individual body parts. Click here to read Gosman Has's profile and here to read Mariano's profile.
Packing on the Compounds
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5 -- Research suggests that minute exposures to common chemicals might pre-program children to be obesity-prone from birth. This doesn't discount the importance of diet and exercise as a means of weight control for everyone. (Mentions research at UCSD) More