Media Roundup:  News Coverage of UW Medicine

Time: Nuts and popcorn: OK for the colon?
 
Spokane Journal of Business: Making Spokane a research center

CBS News: Sick fat cells found in obese people
 
The Bulletin (Bend, Ore.): Negotiating health-care coverage
 
Idaho Journal: Med school stance revised
 
New York Times: In the marathon, style wins no points 

KOTA Territory News: AMA Foundation presents Wilson Scholarship to UW medical student from Alaska 

Seattle Times: The newest generation of drugs: Who can afford them?
 
Los Angeles Times: Bacteria played a role in 1918 pandemic flu deaths, scientists say

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: After combat, citizen soldiers are turning to alcohol

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Dementia: Memorize these three words... 

Hospital Newspaper: Millions of chronically ill lack insurance coverage and don't get needed care
 
News Rx: UW researchers publish case of myotonic dystrophy coexisting with myasthenia gravis and thymoma
 
Tri-City Herald: Kennewick, Wash., library hosts exhibit on women doctors
 
KIRO Radio (audio clip) Why you should wear a bicycle helmet
 
Journal Newspapers: From all terrain vehicles to smoke-detectors: The latest in injury prevention research

Seattle Times: Psychiatric history affects 'baby blues'

Science Now Daily News: A new view of why cholera won't go away
 
Sidney (Mont.) Herald: Entering UW medical student Leila Ben-Youssef competes in Summer Olympics 2008 women's pole vaulting 

Xconomy: Healionics gets kudos in Congress, contracts from companies 

Washington Post: Older cancer patients at heightened risk of suicide 

Reuters: Genital herpes treatment does not prevent HIV
 
Seattle Times: Do safety net hospitals put money over mission?

Asian News International: Scientists uncover proteins in seminal fluids that may affect odds of conceiving

Fox News: Rapid evolution gives sperm big advantage 

News-Review (Roseburg, Ore.): Winston's Jay Starr shines after bilateral lung transplant 

Reuters: School failure harder on girls than on boys 

Washington Post: Which is right? Like some others, she has trouble picking sides 

New York Times: Trial intensifies concerns about safety of Vytorin 

Tri-Cities (Wash.) Herald: Rowers for premies stop in Richland today
 
Ballard News Tribune: UW medical school alumnus Dr. Rayburn Lewis honored by Black Enterprise magazine 

New York Times: Drugs to build bones may weaken them 

Miami Herald: Researchers seek new ways for guys to control fertility

KIRO TV: Costly vaccines cause deadly dilemmas
 
ABC News: Community rallies to buy man new face
 
Fox Business News: Disaboom survey reveals that 52 percent of Americans would rather be dead than disabled

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Hospitals Honor Roll 

Science Daily: Slowing aging a way to fight diseases in the 21st century

AAMC Reporter: Olympic hopefuls reflect on the coming games (Leila Ben-Youssef, entering UW medical student from Sidney, Mont.) 

Seattle Times: Seattle-area children falling from windows with alarming frequency

ABC News: Doctors debate cholesterol tests for kids 

KOMO TV: New way to help beloved Safeway cashier
 
USA Today: As food costs soar, it's back to basics for meal planners 

United Press International (UPI): Rat study suggests new therapy for extreme blood loss
 
Magnolia/Queen Anne News, Seattle: A different kind of mountain
 
WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss.: Gender plays a role in kidney transplant outcomes 

Yakima (Wash.) Herald: On a mission to educate about adult stem cells
 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Trying to give robots a human touch
 
Nurse.com: Spotting early signs of lung cancer 

Wall Street Journal: New surgery eases toll of breast cancer 

Reuters Health in Spanish: Dieta baja en grassa es tan buena para corazon como mediterranea 
English version: Low fat diets are as healthy for the heart as Mediterranean

WTHR-TV News, Indianapolis: Breast cancer vaccines show promise 

Inside Triathlon: Love that skin: Sun, sweat and screen 
(article by UW medical student Cameron Chesnut)

Newsweek: Are drive-through deliveries so bad? 

Newsweek: An armful of agony: drugs and therapy offer new hope for self-cutters
 
Xconomy: Emerging health-care delivery paradigm for the 21st century
 
Kitsap Sun: In some cases, kids are playing too hard
 
PC World: The Internet can help control your blood pressure
 
U.S. News & World Report: Few student athletes survive sudden cardiac death 

Voice of America: Using personal computers to solve humanitarian problems
(special audio and print report for people learning English) 

Seattle Times: UW Medical Center using surgical checklist to improve safety: UW one of 8 hospitals worldwide test-driving a checklist the World Health Organization (W.H.O) unveiled Wednesday

See a copy of the new surgery safety checklist
 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Surgery checklist is all about the patient: UW joins global test that seeks to improve safety
 
Associated Press: Treating herpes doesn't prevent HIV 

CBS News: Symptoms warn of ovarian cancer
 
Wall Street Journal: When a mammogram isn't enough 

KOMO TV News: Sixth graders honor James O'Neal with legacy gift 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Combined liver-kidney transplant surgeries under fire 

Time Magazine: Obesity: It's not just genetics 

Time Magazine: The science of appetite 

KOMO-TV: Stealthy, deadly condition stalks student athletes

 
New York Sun: Top medical centers spread well beyond the Northeast 


Seattle Times: For UW doc, travel is the best medicine 

Learn more about Dr. Chris Sanford's book,The Adventurous Traveler's Guide to Health

Bay Reporter: New HIV vaccine project focuses exclusively on gay men
 
Health Talk's Health Now: Skin cancer: A guide to prevention and treatment (Webcast replay)
 
Washington Post: Vitamin D deficiency puts 40% of U.S. infants and toddlers at risk 

MSNBC: Study: bone drug helped stave off breast cancer 

Business Week: Cancer meeting focuses on existing drugs 

Washington Post: Erbitux works well for two-thirds of colon cancer patients
 

U.S.News & World Report: Anemia drug may speed tumor growth in some patients
 

Baltimore Sun: How secure are pacemakers?
 
Manilla Bulletin: IBM world community grid supercomputer to tackle rice crisis

Agence France-Presse: Researchers hail anti-cancer advances but lament dip in funds 

Wellness Report: The memory makeover 

Washington Post: New calcium measure better predictor of heart risks 

Minnesota Public Radio: Inside brain tumors
 
Rutland (Vermont) Herald: Scientists say male contraceptive is close at hand

Seattle Times: In autistic boy's hands, paper and scissors express an amazing spectrum

See Wil Kerner's art gallery

 
ABC News: All in the family: Where does incest begin? No clear consensus on whether cousins should be allowed to marry
 
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Food costs likely to boost obesity in poor; healthier choices will be even more out of reach, experts say 


USA Today: Fosamax tied to increased risk of heart condition
 
The New York Times: A genetics pioneer sees a bright future, cautiously: A conversation with Arno Motulsky

The Missoulian: Nurse's Notes: Trauma centers have care at ready on short notice
 
KXLY TV (Spokane): Horrible burns don't break a young girl's spirit 

Chicago Tribune: Don't count on living longer than your folks
 
The New York Times: The body in depth: The work of the late UW anatomist, David Bassett
 
Spokesman Review: Helping children heal and cope 

Seattle Times: Travelers who need yellow-fever vaccination may face delays 

Bainbridge Island (Wash.) Review: From a nobel calling to a Nobel Prize: Profile of Edmund Fischer 

Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas): Lifestyle changes can help women live longer, better 

Seattle Times and The Associated Press: Medical marijauna patients denied a spot on transplant list

UW Liver Transplant Committee information on candidate selection


The Register-Herald (Beckley, West Virginia)  Editorial: Women must take care of themselves to care for others 

Sindh Today: Specialized white blood cells direct first responders to viral infection
 
MedIndia: Response to viral infection mediated by specialized white blood cells
 
Washington Post: New heart disease markers discovered
 
KING 5 TV: Personal DNA test raises privacy concerns 

American Hospital Association News: UW Medicine COO Johnese Spisso: A commitment to community service is key to a successful future for every hospital 

Houston Chronical: Something to know about your Nalgene water bottle and your baby's plastic bottles: Chemicals found in plastics has  companies pulling their products

CBS News: The effect of gastric bypass on diabetes, cancer
 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Pacemaker for the brain being studied
 
Trustee Magazine: How patient and family advisors improve quality 

The Hawkeye, Burlington, Iowa: Burlington man survives bout with rare skin cancer (Merkel cell) 

Science Central News: Caffeine and skin 

Northwest Public Radio: Northwest is home to major malaria research
 
The Star Ledger, New Jersey: "Bugs" in your lungs may be your friends; "Spider" valves tested for severe emphasema
 
Seattle Times: Modern milks cater to health concerns
 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle scientists accuse Merck of misrepresenting Vioxx data 

MSNBC: Q & A: Drugmaker deceit and the state of science; court documents offer window into what really happened with Vioxx 

The Washington Post: Maker of Vioxx is accused of deception
 
CBS News: Editors: Vital Vioxx details "manipulated;" Journal of the American Medical Association editors call for clinical trial reforms, alleging Merck withheld data on deaths.
 
Seattle Times: Vioxx maker knew of drug's dangers three years before recall, UW study says
 
Seattle Times:  Readers give lift to ailing fitness instructor 
 
Washington Times: Doctors advance against cancer 

Seattle Post Intelligencer: Seattle institute aims to help cure world health data disorder

U.S. News & World Report: Critical care a rising med school specialty
 
Star Ledger (New Jersey): Home defibrillator no better than CPR, study says
 
Associated Press: Risk of Alzheimer's higher when both parents have the disease 

U.S.News & World Report: Exercise may help seniors avoid dreaded falls 

Seattle Times: Vitamin E won't help, may hurt, cancer study says
 
KING TV: Do you know what you're breathing at 30,000 feet?
 
Seattle Times: Seattle Marathon loses UW as title sponsor 

Seattle Times: Fall-prevention efforts offer simple steps for older adults 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: UW gives adults born with heart disease a place to get care
 
MSNBC: Go to the gym, not the doctor 

Seattle Times: Working Dad: Take baby steps in going green
 
New York Times: Americans spend more to treat spine woes
 
New York Times: Diabetes Type 2 study partially halted after increase in deaths in those who aggressively lowered their blood sugar levels 

Associated Press: Major diabetes, heart study halted after deaths

Seattle Times: Obituary: David Saunders: doctor, musician, poet, and lover of nature 

Seattle Times: Herpes drug doesn't cut HIV risk
 
Washington Post: Radical cancer surgery: More women opt to have both breasts removed

Seatle Post-Intelligencer: UW seeks to prevent awareness during surgery

Read the research study in Pediatrics on phthalates in baby toiletries: Baby care products possible sources of phthalates in infants
 
Globe and Mail, Canada: Lotions, powders, may pose risk to infants 

Washington Post: Study sees hazards in baby powder and lotion
 
ABC News: Potentially harmful chemical in baby products

Seattle Times: Worrisome chemical found in kids

Reuters: Babies absorb phthalates from baby products

Associated Press: Study warns of chemicals in baby items

Baltimore Sun: Effects of baby products studied

The Daily Green: How to avoid phthalates

KVI AM 530 Radio Patient Power: Macular Degeneration and the Latest in Eye Care, with Dr. Russell Van Gelder

Yakima (Wash.) Herald: Voters may prescribe health care fix 

Los Angeles Times: Stomach banding beats drugs in curing diabetes
 
New York Times: Obesity surgery found effective in treating diabetes

MSNBC: Obesity operation may cure diabetes in many

ABC News: Study explains how protein keeps hunger at bay
 
Washington Post: Cancer care advances in 2007 offer hope 

See the full Cancer Advances 2007 Report

Seattle Times: UW virus researcher Dr. Larry Corey named among 2007 Best of Puget Sound by Seattle Times editorial staff
 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Leona Hooper: Sixty years of dishing it up at Harborview

Los Angeles Times: Dr. Merle Sande 1939-2007: San Francisco physician pioneered HIV/AIDS treatment 

U.S. News & World Report: UW medical alumni Dr. William H. Foege named among America's Best Leaders
 
New York Times: Forget Fair, It's Litigation as Usual
 
Forbes: Extreme Races

Puget Sound Business Journal: UW gets $10.8 million to study DNA 

Kansas City Star: Heart screening urged for young athletes
 
Science Now: Can stem cells rescue failing hearts? 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Private funds keep stem cell research viable in Seattle

National Public Radio: Ovarian cancer: Early diagnosis poses challenges

National Geographic: Deadly Contact: How Animals and Humans Exchange Disease  

Pacific Northwest Magazine: From virus to vaccine: Professor Laura Koutsky clears crucial path to preventing cervical cancer

Puget Sound Business Journal: Walking with Christopher Murray, director of the UW Health Metrics Institute