Media Highlights

Thursday, February 7, 2002

Vol 8, Issue 3

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Hartwell's Nobel reaches media around the world

Coverage of Dr. Lee Hartwell's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine included The Economist, International Herald Tribune, Agence France Presse, BBC, Radio Romania, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, The Scientist, National Public Radio, CNN, Associated Press, Reuter's, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times. The story also ran on more than 75 TV network affiliates nationwide. Local coverage included front-page stories in the Seattle Times and Seattle PI and coverage on all local TV stations and major news radio stations.

Blood journal published results of a study led by Dr. Jan Storek (Clinical Research) that compared the immunity of long-term survivors of stem-cell transplants. The study evaluated 72 former patients who are 20- to 30-year survivors. It found they are living a normal life, free of frequent infections. Local broadcast coverage included KIRO-TV, KOMO-TV, KING-TV, KONG-TV and KCPQ-TV. Television stations throughout the country also broadcast the story.

Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio, British Broadcasting Corp. Radio, German Public Radio and Voice of America Radio interviewed Dr. Scott Davis (PHS) regarding a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, regarding graveyard-shift work and breast-cancer risk. Coverage included Good Morning America (ABC-TV), CBS Evening News, CNN, Associated Press, UPI, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, WebMD, AP News Radio, ABC News Radio and CBS Radio. The story also was picked up by more than 100 TV network affiliates nationwide.

The Corvallis Gazette-Times featured Dr. Effie Petersdorf's (Clinical Research) discovery that advanced DNA technology can help identify bone-marrow or stem-cell donors once thought unsuitable for cancer-fighting transplants. The discovery, reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that some "mismatches" between donors and patients will not cause transplants to fail, as was previously believed. Local coverage included the Seattle Times, the Olympian, Eastside Journal, The Daily World (Aberdeen), Bellingham Herald, The Herald (Everett), Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles), the Columbian (Vancouver), and the Columbia Basin Herald.

KUOW-FM's "Weekday" program featured as guests Drs. John Potter and Anne McTiernan (both in PHS) during an hour-long show about colon-cancer prevention and screening. The show generated more than 80 calls from potential participants for McTiernan's APPEAL colon cancer prevention/exercise study.

Cancereducation.com featured an article on Dr. Oliver Press' (Clinical Research) research on the effects of short-course chemotherapy preceding radiation on early-stage Hodgkin's disease. The results, reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed patients significantly benefited from the technique.

ABCNews.com, Reuter's Health, Gary Null's "Natural Living" (a nationally syndicated radio talk show), Oncology Times, ACS News Today, HealthScout.com, Oncology Week in Review and HospitalHealth.com covered a recent study by Dr. Marian Neuhouser (PHS) regarding the use of alternative therapies in pediatric-cancer patients.

The New York Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Danville Register and Bee and The Daily Sun (Lady Lake, Fla.) ran an Associated Press article on extra doses of radiation aiding cancer outlook. Dr. Skyler Lindsley of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance was also quoted.

KING-TV, KOMO-TV, KIRO-TV and KIRO-AM covered the new Hutch/UW Toxicogenomics Consortium, a federally funded effort to understand how genetic makeup impacts health risks associated with exposure to toxic substances. Leader Dr. Helmut Zarbl (Human Biology/PHS) was interviewed for articles that ran in the Spokesman Review, South County Journal and Eastside Journal.

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