I quite like a recent entry from Martin Fenner of the PLoS Blog Gobbledygook positing that citations and links are petty similar creatures: If we …
Month: December 2010
Ideas for health-related charitable gifts
If you are turning your attention to Christmas shopping this week, you may be interested in a recent Shots entry on alternative gift ideas. Suggesting …
Same-sex marriage: What the doctors ordered
Same-sex marriage is one of the most hotly debated topics to date. Often a matter left for legislators and religious groups to mull over, a …
New tool for heart disease saves both lives and money
Increased use of a new interventional cardiology tool that can help patients avoid needless artery-opening stents has been found to not only save lives but …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Dec. 6
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: TV characters' drinking problems: Not that funny: Stanford addiction expert Keith Humphreys, PhD, shares his concerns …
The frightening rise of drugged driving
As if the thought of drivers who are drunk or texting isn't enough to make you anxiously tighten your grip on the steering wheel, two …
Social media may improve participation in health programs
I tried to make running a few times a week part of my personal exercise program for years. I found that adherence to this goal …
Petitioning the IRS to consider breastfeeding a medical expense
The advocacy organization MomsRising is encouraging people to petition the IRS to recognize breastfeeding as a medical expense. The IRS, as discussed here previously, has …
Stanford Faculty Senate opens funding opportunity for MD postdoctoral fellows
The difficulty of obtaining funding to support one's research is an issue faced by academic scientists at every level. Coming from a research background myself, …
Precious cargo: Keeping kids safe in cars and planes
As families get ready to travel during the holiday season, many pediatricians are stressing the importance of child passenger safety. Car crashes are the leading …
Mouse model of muscular dystrophy points finger at stem cells
Stanford researchers have devised the first mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. (Previous attempts had resulted in mice that showed only minimal muscle weakness, rather …
A TEDWomen talk on teens' reproductive health
tedxbayarea on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Adolescent medicine specialist Sophia Yen, MD, who treats patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, gave a presentation at the …
U.S. not making the grade when it comes to women's health
There is some discouraging news today about the state of women's health. As included in the New York Times, a new report from the National …
The Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 officially announced
Larry Chu, MD, the organizing chair of Medicine 2.0 at Stanford, has officially announced The Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0: The Stanford Summit @ Medicine …
Veteran blogger offers tips for starting a science blog
If you're a researcher considering launching your own science blog, here's a useful resource on how to get started from well-known blogger Scicurious. Scicurious (a …
Ommmmm… Mindfulness therapy appears to help prevent depression relapse
The mind is a powerful thing. And it turns out it may also be therapeutic. New research, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, has …