Teens were the focus of this month's Health Dialogues, a KQED series on California health-care issues. It's a meaty, eye-opening show - among the topics: …
Month: February 2010
Patients use speed-dating approach to find a doctor
In searching for a new approach to matching patients with physicians, a Texas hospital has turned to the speed-dating model. Dubbed Doc Shop, these events …
Why eating slowly may cut calories
My fiancée often tells me I eat way too fast. Maybe I do so because I've always privately admired the great white shark's ability to …
Antidepressant exposure may affect fetal brain development
Speaking of the use of antidepressants during pregnancy, a new Danish study is showing that exposure to antidepressants may affect a fetus' brain. Pregnancy Buzz …
Political no man’s land
Year: 1988 Setting: We, Lifou, New Caledonia Position: Private general practitioner On Nov. 18, six months after the killing of 19 Kanaks (the indiginous Melanesian …
Do siestas make you smarter?
I don't know about you, but I've been mourning the loss of afternoon naptime ever since preschool graduation. That is why I was excited to …
Acupuncture shown to be effective in treating depression during pregnancy
I've previously written about a bout of depression I experienced before the birth of my first daughter. My dark period, as I like to call …
Researchers say: Don't work your brain when you're trying to go to sleep
Clinical Cases and Images links today to a New York Times column you may have missed during the long President's Day weekend. It discusses a …
ECT for depression – not so shocking
I grew up in the era of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the film that portrays electroshock therapy as a form of torture practiced …
What now on health care reform
The headline - "Public Option Support Surging in Senate" - sounded so last fall. But there it was last week on Huffington Post, detailing an …
Image of the Week: Sea Breeze Jr.
Since pediatrics is the theme of the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, I have selected an historical image from the Library of Congress on …
Do "Blue Zones" hold the secrets to aging well?
Clinical Cases and Images today links to a TED talk from author/producer/cyclist Dan Buettner. During the presentation Buettner discusses the world's five "Blue Zones," regions …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Feb. 15
This week Scope won the title of "Best New Medical Weblog" in the Medgadget Medical Weblog Awards. We sincerely thank our readers and the editors …
Clinical Correlations: What everyone should know about bedbugs
Continuing our unintentional creepy-crawly theme on Scope today (fruit flies, spiders and bedbugs), I've just come across a rather comprehensive look at bedbugs on NYU's …
Stanford Medicine magazine focuses on kids' health
It's an unpleasant fact of life for patients and their doctors: Sometimes healing hurts. But does it have to? The spring issue of Stanford Medicine …
Fruit flies fly while scalped, exposing their brain cells for science
Hats off to Caltech researchers, who found that scalping fruit flies allowed them to record the insects' brain activity for the first time while they …