The MCAT - the exam that physicians-to-be take prior to entering medical school - is about to be overhauled. Today an Association of American Medical …
Month: March 2011
Pediatric experts: Skip the bumper in Baby's crib
To bumper or not to bumper? That's a question facing many parents-to-be as they ready their baby's nursery. But as Healthland's Bonnie Rochman writes today, …
Five ways social media may change mental health care
Much has been written about how social media have changed medicine and health care. But how will things like online patient advocacy sites, blogs and …
Meet Stanford Hospital's new CEO, Amir Dan Rubin
Amir Dan Rubin is steeped in academic medicine. Before arriving at Stanford in January to take the helm at Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC), he …
Cutting out canned, packaged foods can reduce exposure to BPA
Eliminating canned foods from one's diet can help reduce exposure to bisphenol-A, or BPA, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health …
Stanford Medicine story a Longreads pick
When Are You Dead?, an article in the current issue of Stanford Medicine, has been featured as a Longreads pick. The piece, written by my …
New research center aims to understand premature birth
The March of Dimes and the Stanford's medical school are today launching a new research center dedicated to understanding and preventing preterm birth. The new …
A very small fish with very big potential
Vector blog's Tom Ulrich has written a very interesting entry about the importance of the humble zebrafish in biomedicine. He points out that zebrafish are …
Major League Baseball urged to ban all tobacco use
In anticipation of Opening Day of the 2011 baseball season, a group of public health officials are asking Commissioner Bud Selig and the Major League …
Facing the hard reality of cancer treatment
Sloan-Kettering physician Peter Bach, MD, has been chronicling his wife's breast cancer diagnosis and treatment on the Well blog. I linked to his essay on …
Working to improve patient-doctor communication
In case you missed it, yesterday's San Jose Mercury News featured an article on the challenges of patient-doctor communication. In the piece, Stanford's Clarence Braddock, …
Stem cells to fat cells: Researchers uncover signal that helps control process
Researchers at Stanford and UCSF have identified a molecular signal that plays an important role in directing a certain type of stem cells to mature …
Fear of recurrence an issue for some cancer survivors
Last year, when interviewing her for a story I wrote on an online workshop for cancer survivors, Kate Lorig, DrPH, described to me the problems …
'Genome transplant' concept helps Stanford scientists predict organ rejection
Few things are probably as scary as learning you need a heart transplant. But then picture hearing that, after a suitable organ has been identified …
New report urges pediatricians to talk to parents about social media
Attention: All parents Re: Your children's use of social media It's ubiquitous. And the use of social media by our kids has transformed their lives. …
Stanford researchers create Parkinson's disease in a dish
In a recent Stanford study, neurons were derived from the skin of a woman with a genetic form of Parkinson's disease and shown to replicate …