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"In fact, any woman who comes to me and says she uses condoms, I say, 'That's great, and here's your prescription for Plan B. Fill it and put it in your closet.'" —Kay Daniels, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, on how she had advised her patients to make advance purchases of Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, before the FDA approved it in August for over-the-counter sales. San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 25.
"Imagine a cell kicking and screaming on the way to a petri dish, and you get the idea." —Christopher Scott, PhD, of Stanford's Program on Stem Cells and Society, on how a new technique of creating a stem cell line without killing embryos won't satisfy critics on the religious right because it removes a cell from the embryo. San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 30.
"We want to be sure that people continue to donate blood even if they have been bitten by mosquitoes because there's always need for blood." —Susan Galel, MD, associate professor of pathology and director of clinical operations at the Stanford Blood Center, on how the center is testing all donated blood for the West Nile Virus following two new human cases of the virus in Santa Clara County. KPIX-TV, Aug. 30.