Stanford Report, March 15, 2006

Media monitor

"You need to have peace." —Keith Humphreys, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on the challenge of addressing psychiatric disorders in Iraq. He is part of a group trying to rebuild Iraq's mental health-care system. Washington Post, March 6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030500948_pf.html

"Sleeping is not logical. If you apply logic to it, you're going to screw it up. Think of a 9-year-old. A 9-year-old doesn't apply logic to sleep. He just does it." —Rafael Pelayo, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discussing insomnia. San Francisco Chronicle, March 5. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/05/BUG52HI5RS1.DTL&;hw=stanford&sn=026&sc=112

"There's only one company that makes the drug, and they can decide what it's worth." —Richard Hoppe, MD, the Henry S. Kaplan-Harry Lebeson Professor of Cancer, on the price hike of the cancer drug Mustargen and doctors' outrage over the change. New York Times, March 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/12price.html?_r=1&;adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1142269330-BgHbTm5kY2oRJUY0iphxPw