A Sampling of Clips for 
May 17, 2002
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Study in Nature discusses new drugs that may attack the root cause of Alzheimer’s
National Public Radio, Morning Edition, May 16 – UCSD neuroscientist and leading Alzheimer’s researcher Leon Thal discussed researchers interest in drugs that stop proteins called amyloids from clumping up in the brain.
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Scripps Nierenberg prize awarded to newsman Walter Cronkite
Oceanspace.net, May 16 – Walter Cronkite will be awarded the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest during a ceremony in front of the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on June 2.  (Mentions Scripps director Charles F. Kennel and the Scripps-led OASIS research cruise).
Cronkite

UC nurses to strike May 29
San Diego Daily Transcript, May 17 – Nearly 8,000 University of California medical center registered nurses, including 1,100 nurses in San Diego, plan to strike on May 29.  (Quotes UCSD director of patient care Mary Middleton and UCSD Medical Center nurse and negotiator for the nurses union Geri Jenkins).
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Calling Dr. Kildare
San Diego Daily Transcript, Opinion, May 17 – Opinion article on the status of health care in San Diego. (Mentions the closure of UCSD’s home health unit).
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