Stanford Health Care Professionals Call For Gun Violence To Be Treated As Public Health Crisis
“If this were any other public health problem, we wouldn’t stand for it,” said Dr. David Spain, chief of trauma at Stanford Health Care. “But it’s such a hot button political topic that we lose the ability to talk about it.”
The Mercury News:
Stanford Doctors Lead National Effort For Gun Safety
On Monday, angry and frustrated by gun violence, health care professionals at Stanford Medical Center and 40 other leading medical centers will hold simultaneous rallies to treat firearm violence as a public health crisis. It’s a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer. (Krieger, 9/15)
In other public health news —
San Francisco Chronicle:
UCSF Gets $20 Million To Research Health Effects Of E-Cigarettes, Other Products
UCSF has won a $20 million federal grant to fund research into the health effects of new tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes, the use of which, especially among teenagers, is raising alarm among public health experts. The grant, which comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, is the second round of federal funding that UCSF has received for this kind of research. (Allday, 9/17)
The Mercury News:
Children’s Hospital Oakland At Forefront Of Sickle Cell Treatment, Research
The Oakland hospital’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center offers inpatient and outpatient services and a 20-bed infusion center hospital, where patients come in for transfusions, infusions and other treatments for the day. It treats 250 children and 250 adults a year with sickle cell disease and provides screening and treatment for stroke risk, hypertension and pulmonary and neurovascular disease. (Kawamoto, 9/17)