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• Stanford University and Veterans Affairs Researchers Demonstrate Significant Glucose Reduction in Study of CVAC Process for Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

  - 2008-08-07

  The Stanford University Center on Longevity and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System VAPAHCS today announced positive data from their 10-week study of the Cyclic Variations in Altitude ConditioningTM (CVACTM) process, CVAC Systems Inc.'s new modality being researched for insulin resistance and diabetes. The...

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• Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Forced to Withdraw Recognition of SEIU Union

  - 2008-07-29

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Hospital & Clinics SHC and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital LPCH announced today that they have been forced to withdraw recognition of Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 715. "We did not make this decision lightly," said Lori Curry, vice president of human resources for SHC,...

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• CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz, Leading Economists, and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security

  - 2008-04-29

  STANFORD, Calif. -- California Healthcare Institute:[TABLE OMITTED] Members of the Media, RSVP: < Tiffany Taluban < (858) 405-0807 ...

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• CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz, Leading Economists, and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security

  - 2008-04-25

  STANFORD, Calif. -- CHI:[TABLE OMITTED] George P. Shultz, professor of economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. The previous year, he chaired President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory...

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• California Healthcare Institute to Host Conversation on Healthcare Reform with Former Secretary of State and Leading Economists

  - 2008-04-22

  LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The California Healthcare Institute CHI will host "A Conversation on Healthcare Reform and Income Security," Tuesday, April 29, 4:30-7:00 p.m. at Stanford University in the Francis C. Arrillaga Alumni Center - McCaw Hall, located at 326 Galvez Street in Stanford, Calif. The event will feature George...

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• California Eye Surgeons Journey to Vietnam to Perform Sight-Saving Surgery

  - 2008-03-27

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Ann Marie Gothard of ORBIS International, +1-646-674- 5581, mobile: +1-646-512-3133, Annmarie.gothard@orbis.org FedEx Fellow completes fellowship at Stanford University and returns to Vietnam to lead pediatric ophthalmology department NEW YORK, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three leading California eye surgeons will travel to Ho Chi Minh City,...

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• Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital to Announce Architects, Plans on Renewal Project

  - 2007-12-18

  Experts Tapped to Design New Hospitals That Will Achieve Seismic Safety Standards, Improve Quality of Care and Increase Capacity for Palo Alto STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Medical Center staff will introduce the design development process that will realize the transformation of the Stanford Medical Center at a meeting of...

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• Stanford/Packard Researchers Find Disease Genes Hidden in Discarded Data

  - 2007-10-24

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Previously hidden obesity-related genes have been uncovered from old experiments by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The finding suggests that useful information about many medical disorders may be languishing in mountains of discarded data. "We've devised a fairly...

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• Oct. 9 Forum Will Highlight Community Outreach by Stanford Med Students

  - 2007-10-02

  STANFORD, Calif. -- From AIDS activism in Africa to the mental health of high school students in San Jose, the Stanford University School of Medicine will showcase a variety of community outreach work by students over the past year at the annual Fall Forum on Community Health and Public Service...

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• Pediatricians at Packard Children's 'Stand Up for Children' in Response to Probable SCHIP Bill Veto

  - 2007-09-28

  Call to Action Spreads to Hospitals Nationwide STANFORD, Calif. -- "We're just so very angry. It is ridiculous that access to children's health care is in jeopardy like this," said Lisa Chamberlain, MD, a pediatrician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. "Something has to be done." Chamberlain...

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