A Sampling of Clips for
May
01, 2002
UCSD
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Cancer-drug
problem is nearer to a solution
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
1 – UCSD and
Salk Institute researchers are an important step closer to
understanding why some women who take the drug Herceptin for
advanced breast cancer also have a higher risk of heart failure.
Kenneth Chien,
director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at UCSD,
is co-author of the study published in today’s edition of the
journal Nature Medicine.
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Article
also appeared in:
Copley
News Service, May
1
Problems arise with 1 in 5 new drugs, study warns
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
1 – As many as one in five new drugs have serious side effects
that go undetected or undisclosed long after the U.S. government
approves them for patients, a new study warns. (Mentions the UCSD
and Salk Institute study of the breast cancer drug Herceptin).
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Why
scientific research groups set the pace
Financial
Times (London), May
1 – The US TeraGrid, funded by the National Science Foundation,
will be the largest and most comprehensive computing
infrastructure ever deployed for research.
The San Diego
Supercomputer Center is one of four main scientific
partners collaborating on the project.
Scientific
Research
Something’s
quite fishy about the seahorse
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
1 – Feature on the Birch Aquarium at Scripps sea horse program
and its new exhibit “Secrets of the Sea Horse.”
(Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography marine biologist Jeffrey
Graham and Birch Aquarium curator Robert
Burhans).
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On-line
bus
Jerusalem
Post, April
30 – UCSD
engineers have unveiled the world’s first bus that gives its
passengers Internet access at a peak speed of 2.4 Megabits per
second. (Quotes Elazar Harel,
UCSD assistant vice
chancellor for administrative computing and telecommunications).
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Defying
diabetes: Exercise, diet and new techniques can stave off an
increasingly common disease
Seattle
Times, April
30 – Diabetes is becoming more prevalent in America, now
attacking younger victims. New
gadgets, medications, treatments and knowledge – combined with
early detection and careful management – now make it possible to
escape diabetes’ most dire consequences. (Quotes UCSD
professor of medicine and diabetes expert Steven
Edelman).
Defying
diabetes
Oreste
Piccioni, 86, a leader in particle physics field
Newsday
(New York, NY), Obituary,
May 1 – Oreste Piccioni,
a leader in the field of elementary particle physics and emeritus
professor at UCSD,
has died. He was 86.
http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-piccioni012688860may01.story
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article appeared in:
The
Scotsman, May
1
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