A Sampling of Clips for
April
16, 2002
UCSD
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Office
More
trouble for supplement
Los
Angeles Times, April
15, Pg 3 – Researchers from UCSD
and Rational Therapeutics discovered that the herbal
supplement PC SPES, a blend of Chinese botanicals recently pulled
from store shelves because it contained prescription blood
thinner, was also contaminated with anti-inflammatory drugs.
More
trouble
Sensors
will track coastal waters’ pulse
Orange
County Register, April
16 – Scripps
Institution of Oceanography researcher John
Largier heads the University of California’s new
Network for Environmental Observation of the Coastal Ocean.
Scientists will place ocean sensors at seven network
stations that will search for changes tied to El Niño, global
warming and urban runoff.
http://www.ocregister.com/local/ocean00416cci3.shtml
Health
crisis: Now, action
Los
Angeles Times, April
16, Pg. 12 – Health-care advocacy groups and professors from
UCLA UCSD, UC
Berkley and UC San Francisco proposed remedies for providing
health care to the 7 million Californians who currently have no
health insurance.
Health
crisis
For
Argentine ants in Europe, life is a panic
Los
Angeles Times, April
16, Pg. 16 – A newly discovered supercolony of Argentine ants in
Europe is nearly three times as long as the colony found in
California. (Quotes Neil
D. Tsutsui a former UCSD
graduate student who published a paper with UCSD
colleagues showing that a huge empire of Argentine ants stretches
across California from Mexico to Oregon).
Ants
Little-known
environmental crisis worsens
Santa
Cruz Sentinel, Letters
to the Editor, April 16 – Between 25 and 30 percent of the
world’s fish populations are overfished, while an additional 40
percent are fully exploited, Paul
Dayton, a marine scientist at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography reported to the Pew Oceans
Commission.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2002/April/16/edit/edit.htm
PPH
offers compromise to nurses
San
Diego Daily Transcript, April
16 – More than 1,000 registered nurses are expected to rally in
front of six University of California Medical Centers, including UCSD
Medical Center on Wednesday, to protest contract proposals.
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