SUMC in the News (02/07/06)

Print media coverage

Neponset Valley Daily News (Neponset Valley, Mass.), 02/07/06
Healthy habits: A good night's sleep
William Dement, the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor and director of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, provides comment in this article on sleep problems. The article also appears in the Waltham News Tribune (Waltham, Mass.).

San Francisco Chronicle, 02/06/06
A helping curriculum/ Students take a year to raise AIDS awareness - and funds
Stanford students are involved with Face AIDS, a nonprofit organization that raises money and increases awareness about the African AIDS epidemic. Robert Siegel, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, is quoted in this article.

ABC Online (Australia), 02/06/06
Human waste crap for plants
This article discusses how the discovery of plant viruses in human feces raises questions about the safety of human waste as fertilizer. David Relman, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, provides comment.

Broadcast media coverage

WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.), 02/07/06
Stanford researchers have found that monkeys experiencing mild stress at an early age showed lower anxiety levels and better cognitive abilities as they got older. Similar segments aired on WFLA-TV (Tampa, Fla.), WCNC-TV (Charlotte, N.C.), KNBC-TV (Los Angeles) and WOAI-TV (San Antonio, Texas).