Many of the more than 2.2 million men struck with prostate cancer in the U.S. may perk up - and get up to move around …
Month: May 2011
WHO gives smallpox another three years in the freezer
Following the smallpox eradication, experts in the 1990s recommended that the United States and Russia destroy their stocks of the virus. That didn't happen. And …
Stanford residents share stories from volunteering abroad
[UPDATE: This entry has been corrected from a previous version, which incorrectly stated how many years Stanford residents have participated in the Yale/Stanford Johnson & …
$20 million Coulter endowment to boost bioengineering start-ups
"This is more like business." That's what Russ Altman, MD, PhD, chair of bioengineering, said about a new endowment that was announced today. The Wallace …
The "rock star" work of Stanford's Karl Deisseroth
Stanford's Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of optogenetics, has a fan in medical writer Carey Goldberg. After attending the Next Frontier …
Cycling from coast to coast and raising awareness about depression in men
I met Mark Meier last week just as he was about to mount his bike and cycle across the continent to raise awareness about depression …
The importance of mental health triage in disaster preparedness
News reports that this year's tornado season is the deadliest since 1953 have me thinking about emergency preparedness. While many equate preparing for natural disasters …
New class of physician-scientists showcase research
How can we better study frostbite? Why do so many patients skip their ophthalmology appointments? Does it make a difference where on the spine neural …
In scar wars, a new hope
Scars are an inevitable consequence of surgery, but many people consider them unsightly. In some cases, scars are seriously disfiguring. Now, a group of Stanford …
Darwin meets Dr. Dre in video series about evolution
Adding to the growing list of science rap videos, a new website launched this week featuring musical renditions of concepts in evolutionary biology. Titled "The …
Every second matters for stroke survival, recovery
A very lucky stroke survivor tells his story in this month's Stanford Health Notes and in the video above. Minutes after slumping over, paralyzed in …
Image of the Week: Stanford Medical Center architectural model
Browsing the Stanford Medical History Center Flickr photo stream earlier today, I noticed a number of images of architectural models of Stanford University Medical Center. …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of May 15
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Stanford Diabetes Coaches Class selected as 2011 Healthy Living Innovation Awards finalist: A Stanford-developed program aimed …
The English patient meets the British health-care system… eventually
In all respects excluding its expense, health care in the U.S. has been given a bum rap. (See here, here and here.) I've kvetched about …
CDC launches video contest for the zombie apocalypse
Apparently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention zombie apocalypse post I wrote about earlier this week - the one written by Rear Admiral Ali …
Do pretty shoes lead to ugly problems?
When it comes to shoes, style and comfort are, for the most part, mutually exclusive. And now it appears, according to a release from Methodist …