When I heard about the latest ruling on the new health-care law, I contacted Stanford law professor Hank Greely, JD, to get his thoughts. Here's …
Month: January 2011
Boys tend to spread flu to other boys; girls to other girls
UPDATE: The study is available here. *** My four-year-old daughter has always had more boy friends than girl ones, and after hearing about new flu …
Obama health-care law ruled unconstitutional
Bloomberg is reporting that President Barack Obama's health-care reform act has been declared unconstitutional and called an abuse of federal power: U.S. District Judge Roger …
Learning to live with being sick
What is it like to live with a chronic illness and spend a decade house-bound and often bed-bound? How to Be Sick author Toni Bernhard, …
Protect your heart on Super Bowl Sunday
As is being widely covered today (and something I need to keep in mind as my team plays the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday), Super Bowl-related …
Stanford faculty and students launch social media campaign to expand bone marrow donor registry
Harnessing the social web to increase the number of South Asians enrolled in the international bone marrow registry is both a good cause for Stanford …
Image of the Week: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Earlier this week we showed you a clever slideshow explaining, at a third-grade level, how the overuse of antibiotics has driven the development of "bugs" …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Jan. 24
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Stanford joins first human embryonic stem cell trial: The School of Medicine announces its participation in …
Stanford Health Policy Forum focuses on America's methamphetamine epidemic
Methamphetamine, a central nervous system stimulant drug, allows users to work harder, for longer periods of time, and with greater concentration. For this reason it's …
Former NFL players susceptible to painkiller abuse
While football fans across the country (particularly in my home state) are gearing up for next week's Super Bowl, new research in the journal Drug …
Stem cell institute delivers economic boost to California
In 2004, California voters said "yes" to a proposition that provided $3 billion in stem cell research funding and created the California Institute for Regenerative …
How antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus develops over time
Development of resistant Staphylococcus aureus over time University of Vermont medical student Timmy Plante developed this slide deck to show how the overuse of antibiotics …
Video profiles work of pediatric brain-tumor researcher
Earlier this month Vassar College posted a video on Lucile Packard Children's Hospital neurologist Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, and her groundbreaking work on diffuse pontine …
Just over one month left to submit your work to Medicine 2.0 at Stanford
Larry Chu, MD, the organizing chair of Medicine 2.0 at Stanford, has just sent out a follow-up call for abstracts: With the March 1, 2011 …
The need to reboot science journalism on the web
Today's Guardian has a thought-provoking perspective from John Rennie, former editor in chief of Scientific American and author of The Gleaming Report on the PLoS …
Does better information lead to better health?
In a compelling, recently posted TED talk, Thomas Goetz, author and executive editor at Wired, argues that better health isn't a science problem - it's …