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	“Sports Medicine for Elite Athletes” April 16, 2007 KQED-FM Radio, San Francisco, CA Scott Hoffinger, MD, of Orthopaedics was featured on KQED’s Forum radio program. The topic of the show explored kids, sports & nutrition. Dr. Hoffinger said that too much competition in sports is unhealthy and can lead to repetitive injuries. He recommends that children cross train to avoid muscle imbalances and not focus on one sport.
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	“Parental Drug-use” April 10-13, 2007 KCBS radio, San Francisco, CA KCBS radio featured James Crawford, MD, of the Center for Child Protection in a four-part series exploring the impact of parental drug-use on their children. Dr. Crawford said many child abuse victims suffer greatly at the hands of their drug-addicted parents.
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photo courtesy SF Chronicle	“Unhealthy Competition” April 15, 2007 Sunday Chronicle Magazine Twelve-year-old Matt Kern, who receives physical rehabilitation at our Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes, was photographed for this youth & competitive sports cover story. Matt, an Oakland little league pitcher, receives physical therapy twice a week and is rehabilitating an inflamed right elbow.
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	“Community rallies around family” April 12, 2007 Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA Elliott Vichinsky, MD, of Hematology/Oncology was quoted in this article about 11-year-old leukemia patient, Joshua Maligro. Joshua's hometown community of Brentwood has been donating blood and holding fundraisers to support him in a "Pay It Forward" movement that was inspired by Oprah Winfrey. Dr. Vichinsky said Joshua has rebounded from some very serious health complications.
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photo courtesy of NurseWeek	“Small Steps Nurses take on Childhood Obesity” March 26, 2007 NurseWeek Magazine, California Edition Lourdes Juarez, PNP, of Healthy Eating, Active Living clinic (HEAL) was featured in the magazine cover story on how nurses and schools are attempting to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic. Our HEAL Clinic, now in the Gastroenterology Division, has seen more than 400 patients since it opened in July 2004.
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	“Cord Blood India Sites Need Funds” March 16, 2007 India West, San Leandro, CA Bertram Lubin, MD, of CHORI is featured in this article about the need for two pilot sites in India for cord-blood banking. CHORI launched a campaign to raise $200,000 in private funding to set up the two India sites. The goal is to bank cord blood from 10 families at each site who have a child with thalassemia and a sibling with a match.
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	“Eating for three…Generations” February/March 2007 Working Mother magazine David Martin, MD and Scientist of CHORI is quoted in this magazine article about the research of Dr. Martin and Kenneth Beckman, PhD, which suggests that a mother's diet during pregnancy could have a direct link to obesity, diabetes & cancer, on her offspring for generations. Their findings appeared in the November '06 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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	“Inflammation gene variant raises CVD risk in young women, but not in men” February 2, 2007 Theheart.org Ed Lammer, MD, of CHORI was interview about his new study, which discovered a genetic link between women and heart disease. The study followed hundreds of children in Muscatine, Iowa and found that women with a certain gene variant were more likely to develop heart disease later in life.
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	“Feeling the Flow” February 2007 Healthcare Informatics Children’s Hospital Oakland and Don Livsey, Vice-President and CIO, are highlighted in this article for outsourcing our ambulatory revenue cycle management services to GE Healthcare. Livsey points out the need for real time online scheduling for referring physicians.
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	“Trailblazer: Barbara Staggers, MD, MPH ‘80, FAAP” January 2007 UCB School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA Barbara Staggers, MD, of Adolescent Medicine is highlighted in this article for her trailblazing work \with minority and at-risk youths. Dr. Staggers has made a dramatic difference in the lives of high school students, creating school-based clinics that serve as national models and an internship program that recruits underrepresented youth to the health professions.