A Sampling of Clips for
July 17, 2002
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America’s
best hospitals 2002
U.S. News and World Report, July 22 – The
UCSD Cancer Center ranked at 41 in Cancer. Respiratory
disorders ranked 9th this year.
See link below for respiratory chart
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/rankings/specihqpulm.htm
See
link below for cancer chart
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/rankings/specihqcanc.htm
Tobacco
doublespeak
USA Today, July 16, Pg. 12 – A study by UCSD
and University of North Carolina researchers found that teen
smokers with the most authoritative parents were five times
more likely to be influenced by tobacco company marketing than
their less-restricted peers.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/07/16/edtwof2.htm
Similar
article appeared in:
United Press International, July 17
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No link available online.
S.D.
law firms to get funds from tobacco settlement
San Diego Union Tribune, July 16 – An arbitration
panel has awarded $1.25 billion to law firms, including two
in San Diego, that helped California gain a share of the huge
national tobacco settlement four years ago. The arbitrators
cited testimony from UCSD professor of medicine David
Burns.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/news/news_1n16fees.html
Shake-up
marks defeat for advocate of Mexicans living in the U.S.
Copley News Service, July 16 – After weeks
of political infighting within the Cabinet of Mexican President
Vincente Fox, the high-profile office that represents Mexicans
living abroad has been absorbed into the Mexican Foreign Ministry.
(Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of UCSD’s
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies).
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Enemy
mine
San Diego Union Tribune, July 17 – A significant
and growing shift in the fight to conquer cancer focuses not
on physically removing cancer surgically or with massive doses
of chemotherapy, but on rewiring, disrupting or eliminating
its lifelines. (Quotes David Tarin, director of the Moores
UCSD Cancer Center and Thomas Kipps, an immunologist
at the Moores Cancer Center).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c17cancer.html
