A Sampling of Clips for
July 11, 2006
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10 Reasons You're Healthier
Than You Think: Healthy Everyday Habits
Fitness Magazine, August 2006 -- The latest research shows that the simple pleasures in life boost your immune system. For one, there's no need to feel guilty about indulging in a gossip-fest with your girlfriends. Researchers at UCSD found that women with large social networks (more than six close relationships) weighed less and had lower rates of smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, and depression than women with fewer friends. More
Financial Ties to Industry
Cloud Major Depression Study
The Wall Street Journal, July 11 -- For pregnant women considering whether to continue taking antidepressant drugs, a study in a February issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association contained a sobering warning: Stopping the medication greatly increases the risk of relapsing into depression. But the study, and resulting television and newspaper reports of the research, failed to note that most of the 13 authors are paid as consultants or lecturers by the makers of antidepressants. (Mentions research by Christina Chambers, a pediatric researcher at UCSD, who was not involved with the study) More
Big Funds Drive Switch
to Electronic Energy Trading
The Wall Street Journal, July 10 -- The New York Mercantile Exchange spied an opportunity when Intercontinental Exchange Inc. closed its London trading floor in early 2005 and moved energy-contract trading to computer terminals. But Nymex's bid to snatch business from ICE was undermined by a phenomenon that was driving the switch to electronic from open-outcry trading: the arrival of big money managers to the energy markets. (Quotes James Hamilton, an economics professor at UCSD) More
Needle Exchange Programs Do Work
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, July 10 -- The sharing of injection equipment is associated with transmission of blood-borne pathogens including HIV, hepatitis viruses, human T-cell lymphotrophic viruses and malaria, as well as increased risk of endocarditis, cellulitis and skin abscesses. Clean syringe exchange programs, or SEPs, aim to reduce the negative consequences associated with injection drug use for those who cannot or will not cease injecting. (Editorial by Steffanie A. Strathdee, professor and chief of the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine and Richard S. Garfein, an associate professor in the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine at UCSD) More
Low Blood Supply May Delay Surgeries
NBCSandiego.com, July 10 -- Blood supplies are so low that two hospitals said Monday they may have to delay elective surgeries for some patients. Mercy Hospital and UCSD Medical Center both receive blood supplies from the Red Cross, which said it has less than a five-hour supply of OH negative blood -- a universal blood type that can be used by all patients. More
Similar story in
San Diego Union-Tribune
Dr. Tsaihwa J. Chow, 81;
Expert on Lead Pollution
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3 -- Beginning with groundbreaking research in the 1950s on lead isotopes in ocean sediments, Dr. Tsaihwa J. Chow helped heighten awareness of what has become a worldwide pollution problem. Dr. Chow, who joined the staff of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1959 and retired as a research scientist emeritus in 1988, died June 21 at UCSD's Thornton Hospital. He was 81. More
