One of the first things I read this morning when I started work was an opinion piece in the New York Times by Abraham Verghese, …
Month: February 2011
The hurdles facing electronic medical records
Henry Lowe, MD, the chief information officer at the School of Medicine, discusses the hurdles to the adoption of electronic medical records in today's Inside …
Big advance against a vicious pediatric brain tumor
New Stanford research is providing the first advance in 35 years toward treatment of a vicious pediatric brain tumor. A study appearing today in Proceedings …
Scope will be back later today
Updated 12:30 pm: And we're back. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. * * * Our offices are without power this morning. We will return …
Image of the Week: Snow falling on Stanford Hospital
With all the talk about a freezing storm system dusting San Francisco with snow, we thought this new (but still historical) image from the Stanford …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Feb. 21
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Image of the Week: A model of HIV: This week's image comes from the 2010 International …
Stanford Health Policy Symposium discusses the future of nursing
Earlier this month, a panel of nurses, physicians, researchers and policy-makers discussed the role of nurses in health care at a Stanford Health Policy Symposium. …
Power of Research game lets players try their hand at biomedicine
Ever wanted to try your hand at biomedical research but lacked the laboratory? The European Commission on Research & Innovation wants to help. Earlier this …
Solving the genetic mystery of the albino redwood
Scientists at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz have launched a project to sequence the genome of the "Albino Redwood," an illusive and fragile genetic mutation …
Eat a germ, fight an allergy
Anybody who's ever picked up an M&M off the sidewalk and popped it into his or her mouth (and, really, who among us hasn't?) will …
Let them eat steak: Will new laws make the U.S. food supply safer?
In January, President Obama signed into law the Food Safety Modernization Act, the first major advance in the food-safety authority of the Food and Drug …
Studying ways to reduce cancer-related sleep problems
Earlier this month I wrote about a Stanford study exploring whether acupuncture can help benefit patients with cancer-related sleep problems. Now Oxana Palesh, PhD, MPH, …
The scientist in the kitchen
Don't consider yourself a scientist? If you've ever thrown a sheet of cookies in the oven, then you should. At least that's what Scienceline's Stephanie …
Study shows air pollution may increase heart attack risk more than drug use
The mixture of tiny particles, chemicals and gases in the air generated by traffic, power plants and other sources is a major culprit of …
Pew Internet's Susannah Fox to deliver closing keynote at Medicine 2.0
Here's some very exciting news from Larry Chu, MD, about the closing keynote at the Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford: I am delighted to confirm …
Stretchable solar cells could power electronic 'super skin'
Stanford chemical engineer Zhenan Bao, PhD, has developed polymer solar cells that can be stretched up to 30 percent beyond their original length and snap …