A Sampling of Clips for
December 13th, 2006
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Analysis: New Drugs Attack Blood Diseases
United Press International, Dec. 12 -- Scientists said Tuesday that new experimental medications are being rolled out from pharmaceutical companies to defeat some of the uncommon but deadly and mysterious diseases -- cancers and other illnesses that arise from cells that go awry in blood. (Quotes Kenneth Kaushansky, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSD) More
Merck Gives UCSD $250,000 to Build Mexico Ties
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 13 -- The global pharmaceutical corporation Merck & Co. is providing $250,000 to UCSD's San Diego Dialogue to foster commercial links in health and life science research between California and Mexico. “There is enormous potential to build a globally competitive cluster of life science innovation,” said Clemens Caicedo, Merck's senior director of strategic alliances. More
Give an Ear to the Shouted Warnings
About the Dangers of Climate Change
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Opinion, Dec. 10 -- Naomi Oreskes is a [UCSD] historian who studies how science is communicated. She testified at the hearing about her research documenting the magnitude of scientific consensus. More
Climate Change Science Clear Here
North County Times, Opinion, Dec. 12 -- Last week,
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chaired his last hearing as the outgoing leader of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The hearing's topic, in Inhofe's words, was "the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time, global warming." Perhaps Inhofe's key argument is that there is no "scientific consensus" on climate change. Sen. Inhofe, meet Carlsbad resident Dr. Richard Somerville. Somerville isn't just a distinguished professor of climate science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. He's one of the coordinating lead authors working for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. More
SAIC Profits Up 8% in First Post-IPO Filing
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 13 -- Posting financial results for the first time since its initial public stock offering, San Diego's SAIC said yesterday that profits grew almost 8 percent for the three months that ended in October. (Quotes Michael Willoughby, a professor of economics at UCSD) More
Supervisors Approve Safety-net Action Plan
North County Times, Dec. 12 -- County supervisors capped off a $615,000 study aimed at finding out what ails the region's health care "safety net" Tuesday by accepting a terse, 15-word "action plan" that basically said: "Find more money." Supervisors said Tuesday that they want to help find ways to improve the safety net -- the collection of hospitals, community clinics, trauma centers and other agencies that make sure the poor, uninsured and underinsured get health care. (Mentions the UCSD Medical Center) More