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).