Cheers to the 2018 Stanford Medicine graduates!
On Saturday, June 16, Dean Lloyd Minor welcomed 166 School of Medicine graduates along with Stanford faculty, family and friends for the diploma ceremony.
Stanford psychiatrist, engineer and neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth wins 2018 Kyoto Prize
Stanford's Karl Deisseroth has won the 2018 Kyoto Prize in applied technology for his invention and application of optogenetics.
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Sex biology redefined: Genes don’t indicate binary sexes
The scenario many of us learned in school is that two X chromosomes make someone female, and an X and a Y chromosome make someone male. These are simplistic ways of thinking about what is scientifically very complex.
Intermittent fasting: Fad or science-based diet?
Are the health-benefit claims from intermittent fasting backed up by scientific evidence? John Trepanowski, postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center,weighs in.
The book that made me go to medical school – and other good reads
Stanford medical student Natalia Birgisson offers suggestions of books that doctors-to-be should be reading.
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Let’s pretend: A family’s denial
Writer Loren Stephens reflects on her father's death from cancer and on her family's decision to hide the terminal diagnosis from him. This is part of Scope's collaboration with the publication Months to Years.
Scientists tap sound and acoustics to listen in on the brain, track mosquitoes, design heart tissue and more
Researchers at Stanford are harnessing sound and acoustics to innovate technologies that boost medical and health applications; from a stethoscope that "hears" brain waves, to software that identifies the hums of mosquitoes.
Lay off the laxatives — even a short bout of diarrhea can ruin your gut microbes’ month
In each of our abdomens sit trillions of microbes, but a bout of diarrhea can induce a lasting round of gut-bug disruption, new research indicates.
Aspirin for prevention: Know your risk of heart attack or stroke
In this installment of "Aspirin for prevention," physician-researcher Randall Stafford provides tips to calculate the risk of heart disease or stroke, to inform decisions about taking aspirin preventatively.
Judgment is not within our jurisdiction: A challenge for physicians
What I learned in medical school
With graduation approaching, Stanford medical student Akhilesh Pathipati reflects on what he has learned over the last four years.
The medical student’s identity crisis
In this Stanford Medicine Unplugged piece, second-year medical student Natasha Abadilla reflects on how medical school can delay many aspects of adulthood, such as career and family.