More than 6 million Americans suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a psychiatric condition in which patients become overwhelmed with worry and fear. Stanford's …
Month: February 2010
NPR's Picture Show highlights Stanford collection of cigarette ads
Yesterday, NPR's Picture Show photo blog highlighted the School of Medicine's collection of historical cigarette ads. (Stanford's collection was assembled by Robert Jackler, MD, chair …
How to eat healthily on a budget
In this video John LaPuma, MD, offers several good tips about how to eat healthily on a limited budget. This may also be the only …
How the false MMR vaccine-autism connection was perpetuated
I'm a few days late to this one, but pediatrician Rahul Parikh, MD, has written an engaging article on Salon analyzing the media's role in …
Pick a color: Study shows depressed patients gravitate towards gray
When I heard news of a study on colors and mood today, I couldn't help but think of the opening words in Dr. Seuss' "My …
PBS launches science program for young girls
My daughters are only three years and seven months - years away from becoming part of the tween set - but I was still excited …
Guidance on how to talk with kids about weight
With First Lady Michelle Obama launching a nationwide campaign tackling childhood obesity, we've been hearing a lot about the issue in the news lately. This …
Knowing when to bend the rules
Year: 1990 Setting: Hut in We, Lifou Position: Private general practitioner in New Caledonia A small familial delegation comes to my office one morning asking …
Stanford Mini Med School lecture videos posted
This fall, Stanford's Continuing Studies program launched a new offering: Stanford Mini Med School, featuring distinguished faculty, scientists and physicians from the university's School of …
Ad it up: Super Bowl commercials vs. health research
Regardless of whether or not you watched the Super Bowl yesterday, you've probably at least heard of some of the ads. Some were panned, some …
Inside Facebook looks at pharmaceutical companies on Facebook
The blog Inside Facebook has a lengthy post up today looking at the marketing efforts of pharmaceutical companies on the social network. Sara Ines Calderon …
Stanford doctor discusses experience in Haiti
As previously reported, a team of Stanford physicians and nurses, including Paul Auerbach, MD, recently spent two weeks providing medical care to survivors of the …
Sneezing radio cleans its own microprocessors
Much as the body sneezes to remove foreign substances from the nasal cavity, this radio allegedly sneezes to cleanse its microprocessors of dust. The details: …
Image of the Week: 3D radiology image of the lung
This image of a lung that was made in Stanford's Radiology 3D Imaging Laboratory. Computed tomography was used to scan the side of the lungs …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Feb. 1
This week on Scope we discussed the risk of adults forgoing routine vaccines,, Stanford's medical team returning from Haiti, and the question about the proper …
A grain of salt concerning salt-intake reduction
Headlines were made, a month or two ago, by a mathematical-modeling study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that lowering average U.S. …