A Sampling of Clips for
August 15, 2006
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Married People Live Longer
Newsday, Aug. 15 -- Here's some bad news for the confirmed bachelors and runaway brides of the world: They don't live as long as married people, especially if they never get married, according to new research. In a new study, Robert Kaplan of UCLA and Richard Kronick of UCSD found that between 1989 and 1997, those who had been widowed were almost 40 percent more likely to die than married people living with their spouses. More
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Bolivia Renationalization Hits Snag
The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 15 -- Bolivia has fallen behind on the timetable for its planned renationalization of its oil and natural-gas industry, showing how difficult an undertaking the recently announced takeover is going to be and underscoring the limits to the resource nationalism that has erupted across Latin America. (Quotes David Mares, a political scientist at UCSD) More
Student Plagiarism
Stirs Controversy at Ohio University
The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 15 – Acting on allegations made by a former graduate student who discovered the duplicated material while combing through past theses, Ohio University is taking action against 39 mechanical engineering graduates, 36 of them from abroad. The affair raises questions about how well the nation's universities are teaching the fundamentals of research to foreign students, who have become an important source of tuition dollars and research talent in engineering. (Quotes Michael Kalichman, director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD) More
Analysis: Alaska Oil to Affect California Vote
UPI, Aug. 14 -- The Prudhoe Bay saga may put a California ballot measure in a new light for voters deciding on a new royalty on state oil producers, money to be used to cut down oil consumption in the state. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More
Doctor Computerizer
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 15 -- Joshua Lee, head of informatics at the UCSD Medical Center, is a rare breed in the medical world, a doctor who's also a computer geek. He's part of a small, but growing, number of physician technophiles who are replacing patient charts and prescription pads with laptop computers and wireless hand-held devices. Along the way, they're betting that the changes will make hospitals more efficient and safer for patients by reducing human error. More
A Shot at Ending Cervical Cancer?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 15 -- To better understand the vaccine, genital human papillomavirus, cervical cancer, and how women and men will be affected, we discussed some frequently asked questions with several scientists, including Dr. Cheryl C. Saenz, a UCSD gynecologic oncologist; and the Centers for Disease Control. More
Inmate Clinical Trials Rejected
The Press-Enterprise, Aug. 14 -- California prisoners won't be used as medical guinea pigs any time soon despite a federal panel's recommendations to ease restrictions on medical research using inmates, prison authorities announced Monday. (Quotes Mike Kalichman, director of the research ethics program at UCSD) More
Expanding their Cultural Horizons
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 11 -- For residents in San Ysidro, cultural options are limited. When they want to visit a museum or catch a show at the theater, they go to Tijuana or downtown San Diego. Casa Familiar hopes to change that by creating a cultural arts and economic development center on West San Ysidro Boulevard. (Quotes UCSD visual arts professor Teddy Cruz) More
UCSD Professor Named
to Indian Institute of Technology
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 11 -- Ajit Varki, M.D., professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine, has accepted an invitation to be an honorary distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. More
