I can bear the adult patients with amputated limbs, red and raw stumps oozing, waiting stoically on cots spilling out into the hallways. The toes …
Month: February 2010
Image of the Week: Genetic inheritance
This isn't, strictly speaking, a medical image, but it is nevertheless a delightful visualization of the concept of genetic inheritance. Photo by bennybb Via kottke.org
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Feb. 22
This week Scope featured conversations about what went wrong with health-care reform, patients using the speed-dating model to find a doctor, and scanning a 42,000 …
Haiti day 1: Arrival
I took American Airlines flight #18 from JFK airport to Port-au-Prince on Feb. 24, only the second such commercial flight to land in post-earthquake Haiti …
Obscura Day features pneumatic tube system at Stanford
Stanford University Medical Center's pneumatic tube system, one of the largest such networks in the world, will be on display March 20 as part of …
Baby woolly mammoth scanned for Chicago museum
Apparently mummies aren't the only ancient creatures being scanned these days. Now GE Healthcare has donated time on its MR and CT scanners to The …
Making fun of doctors: An excerpt from an 18th-century Chinese novel
New theories on autism: facts vs. myths
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof opined on Thursday that toxins could be contributing causes to autism. He cited an article (registration required) in the …
$12 BILLION? Seeing red while health insurance companies are in the black
I've not jumped in to the health care reform fray here at Scope before. I think it's because it means so much to me. My …
Interactive chart aims to illustrate evidence available for health supplements
If, like me, you wonder about the seemingly constant and occasionally conflicting studies about health supplements, then check out this interactive chart from Information is …
What would health reform (if it happens) mean for women?
The big news out of Washington is, of course, today's bipartisan summit on health reform. (It's happening now and being streamed here.) The National Women's …
New music video from science rappers at Stanford
You may be familiar with the science rappers at Stanford from their 2009 Internet hit "Regulatin' Genes." Now the dynamic rap duo are back with …
Blocking glioblastoma's back-up pathway
A former elementary school classmate of mine died of glioblastoma just this month. I hadn't seen him in decades, but I followed his cancer battle …
Using photoacoustics technology to increase accuracy of lymph node screens for cancer
Photoacoustics, or a laser-induced ultrasound, may help doctors screen the progression of melanoma faster and less invasively than other methods, according to research from the …
Stanford to test speedy protoype gene decoder
Stanford is one of 10 institutions in the nation selected (link to PDF) to receive a 'single molecule real time' sequencing system from Menlo-based Pacific …
Ain't no cure for the muscle-cramp blues: The sun slowly sets on quinine
On June 8, 1962 - the ninth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation - Commander Walter Edward Whitehead, the bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water, …