Making news across the country
People magazine on Oct. 15 and People.com on Sept. 28 ran stories about City of Hope’s Music and Entertainment Industry Spirit of Life® gala featuring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus and Hilary Duff. The event was also covered by E! News on Sept. 28, and in InTouch Weekly, OK! and Billboard.com in October.
Stories about Miley Cyrus’s Best of Both Worlds concert tour, with a portion of ticket sales benefiting City of Hope, were reported by The Washington Post on Jan. 6 and Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times on Jan. 15. Additionally, stories in People.com on Jan. 30 and Miami’s WTVJ-TV (NBC) on Jan. 31 noted that almost $1 million has been donated to City of Hope from the tour.
Stephen J. Forman, M.D., the Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, was quoted in a Jan. 29 New York Times article on stem cell banking services offered by private companies and whether there’s any benefi t from using them.
The March issue of Glamour magazine featured Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., in an article about the link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk.
USA Today highlighted race car driver Carl Edwards and his support for City of Hope in its sports column on Oct. 18.
An Oct. 4 New York Times.com article on choosing products that support breast cancer charities included a link to City of Hope’s cause-related marketing Web site.
Barry Forman, M.D., Ph.D., the Ruth B. and Robert K. Lanman Chair in Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery Research, was quoted in a Sept. 26 Men’s Health.com article about potentially harmful ingredients in nutritional supplements.
“The Best Medicine”, a comedy show and auction event benefi ting City of Hope, was showcased by ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Sept. 13 in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 27.
City of Hope’s Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer was featured by numerous regional outlets, including the Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun-Times, Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Phoenix station KSAZ-TV (Fox) and Seattle station KCPQ-TV (Fox), Washington D.C. stations WJLA-TV (ABC), Newschannel 8, Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Examiner and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on Oct. 6 and the Oct. issue of HealthBeat, a Sunday magazine in the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Whittier Daily News.
Fouad R. Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D., director, Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, and Howard Marx, M.D., physician, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, were featured in a Sept. 16 KNBC-TV half-hour special about innovative medical treatments to treat life-threatening diseases. Kandeel and Marx discussed their research on bone marrow transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes who undergo islet cell transplantation to lower the chances of tissue rejection.
On Sept. 18, Chicago’s media outlets WLS-TV (ABC), WGN-TV (CW), WMAQ-TV (NBC) and WBBM-AM (CBS) ran segments on Chicago Bear’s Greg Olsen joining the fight against breast cancer and showcased Paper Mate®’s “Are You Man Enough?” program to raise awareness for breast cancer and funds for City of Hope.
On Sept. 3, the Los Angeles Business Journal noted Elizabeth Dunne’s appointment as executive officer of City of Hope’s medical center. The same issue also featured a Q&A with Steven Martin, associate vice president of communications, about retailers in the Los Angeles area.
“Writing for Wellness,” a book that evolved from the writings of a City of Hope supportive care program of the same name, was featured in the U-section of Sept. 16’s Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and San Bernardino Sun.
The Oct. 9 issue of the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune featured a front page “Local News” story on numerous City of Hope physicians being named in the third edition of the book, “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer.”
Joseph Rosenthal, M.D., director, pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation, was quoted in a Sept. 15 and Oct. 12 Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune articles about the passage of Assembly Bill 34, which will create California’s fi rst public umbilical cord blood bank, and its benefi ts for patients with blood diseases.