This wonderful image is of the Dale Chihuly sculpture that greets visitors to the new Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building. The facility, which …
Month: October 2010
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Oct. 25
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Spain holds napping championship to revive siesta tradition: Spain held its first siesta championship in Madrid, …
R.I.P., DDT: Now, how to bury malaria?
After the publication of Rachel Carson's explosive book Silent Spring in 1962 launched the environmentalist movement, DDT - a demonstrably, even uniquely, effective anti-mosquito agent …
New NIH Images database: images from biomedical literature
The National Institutes of Health has just announced the launch of Images, a database of more than 2.5 million biomedical images culled from PubMed Central's …
Genomics gets personal
Richard Quake may never know for sure what killed his 19-year-old son, Richie, in 2008. But thanks to Stanford cardiologist Euan Ashley, MD, and the …
The dangers of caffeinated alcohol drinks
Much has been in the news lately about the dangers of caffeinated alcohol drinks, and experts weighed in with their concerns in a recent HealthDay …
More on ongoing stem cell court case
Yesterday, Stanford formally opened the nation's largest stem cell research facility. Today, opponents of human embryonic stem cell research filed their latest argument in an …
Restoring hand function with surgery
Someone close to me has scleroderma. I didn't know much about the autoimmune disease before she was diagnosed, but I remember feeling a sense of …
The need to improve health behaviors
Will the country's new health law, which extends insurance coverage to 32 million Americans, do much to improve our health? Not necessarily, according to Steve …
Stanford opens Lokey Building, crown jewel of stem cell science
As soon as he heard the words "stem cell" Lorry I. Lokey said he wanted in. Lokey, the philanthropist and founder of Business Wire, jumped …
Stanford researchers work to curb obesity, hunger in India
India's growing economy has created a paradoxical health problem of undernutrition and obesity. Across the nation, the poor go hungry while the expanding middle class …
Really, IRS? Agency doesn’t recognize breastfeeding as form of preventive medicine
In my year-plus of writing for this blog, and in my numerous years of covering medical and health issues before that, few things have enraged …
Your sweet-smelling air freshener may have a dirty secret
Here's a disturbing notion: Scented consumer products, like the Method-brand diffuser plugged into my living room wall, could be emitting much more than floral or …
Flu shot, please!
As a playful reminder for readers to get their flu shots, the New York Times' Motherlode links today to a blog entry on how tough …
Extra fructose, hidden in plain sight
Back in my grad school days, I hesitated to tell new acquaintances I was working on a PhD in nutrition. Disclosing that information led people …
H1N1 influenza: Why 2009 wasn't like 1918
Remember the H1N1 strain of influenza? Science Life's Rob Mitchum offers a fascinating look at the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 1918 and why, he says, …