Scope is an award-winning medical blog produced by a team of writers at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As the women began to clap, Michele Barry, MD, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, realized she’d touched on something big. It was summer of 2016 and she was at a conference in Nairobi when a panel composed entirely of men took the stage. Barry rose from her seat in the audience and …Read More
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Henry Ford, the father of the first affordable automobile, once said, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude… constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise… so low in price that no man making a good salary will be …Read More
For the past six years, a team of researchers from Stanford has been foraging the jungle in Madagascar, catching mouse lemurs and sampling the blood of the small primates before releasing them back into the wild. Lemurs, it turns out, suffer from many of the ailments that humans do, like obesity, high cholesterol and cardiovascular …Read More
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Stanford lecturer Maya Adam, MD, has a long connection with South Africa. Her mother is South African, and Adam grew up both there and in Canada. Now, she’s leading an effort to bring health-care training to the brigade of local community health workers who go door-to-door to provide health care throughout the country of South Africa. “These …Read More
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When I recently asked Stanford medical student Kimberly Souza whether there were any patients in her research study on burns that she remembered well, she smiled and immediately started scrolling through photos on her phone. “There was this cutest little boy,” she said, showing me a photo of a smiling Nepalese boy stretching out little arms …Read More
Every week it’s something new. Last week, the BBC ran a story about an outbreak of anthrax in Siberia, the result, researchers believe, of an old reindeer carcass released by melting permafrost. The week before, ArsTechnica had a feature article associating a new kind of kidney disease with exposure to chronic heat and dehydration, common in …Read More
The recent film “A United Kingdom” tells the story of Botswana’s maverick first president who defied convention and caused an international scandal by marrying a British woman he met as a law student at Oxford. Seretse Khama, who went on to become a revered figure, set the tone for the country’s progressive policies, which I …Read More
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Stanford researchers have found that men are more likely to receive surgery in armed conflict areas. Their findings were recently published in the journal Surgery. The authors, led by Stanford general surgery resident Joseph Forrester, MD, MSc, analyzed the records of nearly 50,000 surgeries received at Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) facilities in 12 conflict …Read More
With funding for global health on the chopping block in many nations, Stanford visiting professor David Heymann, MD, offered practical advice for the global public health community recently: Think like a politician. In a talk on campus with Paul Costello, the School of Medicine’s chief communications officer, Heymann, shown above on the right, discussed the importance …Read More
Environmental degradation is widely recognized to contribute to human illness. However, little research has been done to investigate the impact of human illness on the environment. This is a critical question particularly for the millions of people around the world who depend on natural resources for food and income while coping with high burdens of …Read More
