Date
Speaker/ Topic
Discussion leader
Jan. 20 U. Kitron Introduction.
Jan. 27 No class
Feb. 3 Discussion Risk & Epidemiology/Items from the popular Media
Feb. 10 U.Kitron Drinking and heart disease
Feb. 17 Discussion Lyme Disease and AIDS
Feb. 24
How scientific information
makes it to the popular press
Greg
Kline Science
Reporter, The News-Gazette
Read: Exercise
tones up mind, too; C-U News Gazette, 2/29/2004
Chris
Beuoy Director
of Communications, CVM
Mar. 3 Dr. Amy Aidman Effects
of Reducing Children's Television and Video
Game Use on Aggressive Behavior
Mar. 8 Students
Drug
advertising Note:
Tuesday (not Thursday) 3-4
Mar. 17 A. Schotthoefer Frontline Video - Gulf War Syndrome
Mar. 24 Spring break
Mar. 31 Students Discussion of Frontline Video
Apr. 7
Student presentations 1. Jason Long & Alix Partnow
- Online pharmacies
- slides.
2. Catherine Benson & Marie Labak -
prions BSE/CJD - slides
Apr. 14
Student presentations: 1. David Murdach and David Maduram
- Avian Influenza
CDC
fact sheet, UC
Davis Vet Med fact sheet, other readings,
slides
2. Linea Richards & Stephanie Schoepfer-Grosskurth
WNV vaccine & pregnant mares,
Internet
resources 1, 2,
slides
Apr. 21
Student presentations 1. Kate Brix-Rutherford & Nick
Guedet - Toxoplasmosis
CNN
item, part 1 and part
2, Boyer
et al 2005, slides
2. Sara Schultz & Crystal Shank - anti depressants
JAMA
Zoloft study , slides
Apr. 28 Student
presentations 1. Judylee Marrow & Christina Hansen - Brucellosis and
CWD in wildlife
Popular
press coverage - item 1, item
2; CWD article, Brucellosis
article
Slides,
Handout.
2. Brian Peters & Johanna Salzer - Heartworm and
Proheart 6
FDA
talk paper , JAVMA
news, Fort
Dodge response, slides