Good Morning America. The old adage that advises against sharing the spotlight with animals or children would fall flat with Emmanuel Mignot, MD. The professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences has appeared with his narcoleptic dog colony for over a decade. He and the dogs were on PBS’ “NOVA” in February. Last week, they were guests on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He explained to anchor Diane Sawyer that by studying the dogs’ genes, his team found the cause of narcolepsy. Their goal now is to figure out how to compensate for the defective gene and “find a cure or something extraordinary for patients.”
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/DrJohnson/Narcoleptic_Dogs_040303-1.html

Discovery Health. On the broadcast docket for the week, a crew from “Discovery Health” will spend Thursday with oncologist Ronald Levy, MD, who is receiving an award from the American Cancer Society. Levy, the Robert K. and Helen K. Summy Professor, and and wife Shoshana Levy, PhD, Dean Philip Pizzo, MD, and two of Levy’s patients will be interviewed in a variety of locations throughout the day.

USA Today. Marcia Stefanick was interviewed March 8 in USA Today about the government halting a hormone replacement therapy study. Stefanick, professor of medicine with the Stanford Prevention Research Center and chair of the steering committee for the Women’s Health Initiative, said because the results are still being compiled, it will be several weeks before women can fully evaluate their individual risks.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-03-07-hrt-usat_x.htm

San Jose Mercury News. Sunday’s Merc had the skinny about the growing number of overweight kids in America, referencing studies by Thomas Robinson, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and of medicine and director of the Stanford Pediatric Weight Control Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8128160.htm