The Wall Street Journal is reporting today on a new study showing how parents can aid in the recovery of adolescents with anorexia: In the …
Month: October 2010
New insight into asthma-air pollution link
Air pollution - whether from diesel exhaust in a big city or cooking-fire smoke in a developing nation - is bad for children with asthma. …
Study analyzes video game-related injuries
Earlier this year, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that a teenager in England fractured her foot after an intense Wii Fit session. Injuries …
Parenting a child with pervasive developmental delay
Richard Holloway, PhD, associate dean for student affairs at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has an extraordinarily moving essay in today's new issue of Archives …
Stanford team wins 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge award
Happy Feet, a mobile wellness application developed by a team from Stanford, is among the six winners of the 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The …
Stanford research advances Nobel-winning IVF work
When I woke up automatically at 2:30 am this morning, I wasn't surprised. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was scheduled to be announced …
Developer of in vitro fertilization wins Nobel Prize
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was awarded today to Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who helped develop in vitro fertilization (IVF). The …
Image of the week: high-throughput cell culture robot, 2007
The above photograph, from 2007, shows a high-throughput cell culture robot. According to Wellcome Images: "Cells are cultured in the incubator on the right and …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Sept. 27
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante named a MacArthur Fellow: Carlos Bustamante, PhD, a professor of genetics, was …
Comfort from FDA with one question
Here's a small sign that things are turning around at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A few days ago, my blog entry about the …
Study says nearly 40 percent of American children's diet consists of empty calories
Pizza, sugar-sweetened beverages and grain desserts are the top sources of calories for children in the United States, according to findings (subscription required) published in …
CDC report shows depression rates higher in the Southeastern United States
An estimated nine percent of adults in the United States report they are depressed at least occasionally, according to data released yesterday from the Centers …