When I browse through my cookbooks or recipes I’ve bookmarked online, I often think to myself, “This looks really good, but how healthy is it?” …
Month: May 2011
Expert answers on sun precautions for kids
In a live Facebook chat over the lunch hour, Latanya Benjamin, MD, a pediatric dermatologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, answered questions about sun safety …
Teens and sleep: A Q&A
On Shots today, a group of sleep experts addressed NPR listeners' questions about teens and sleep. I found the first question, and the answer from …
Diabetes prevention program trains youth in chronic disease self-management
As mentioned earlier this week, physicians at the Stanford Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine are working to reduce diabetes rates in the …
Elliot Krane discusses the mystery of chronic pain
In this TED Talk, Elliot Krane, MD, chief of the pain management service at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, discusses chronic pain - and how pain …
Dermatologist provides sun-safety tips during live Facebook chat
It's been cool and rainy here in the Bay Area - but (fingers crossed!) sunny days aren't far away. In anticipation of that warm, summery …
The mind maps the visual world with minimal means
A study of human vision published today shows that our perception of the world around us may rest on what amounts to a sketch. The …
Nature summarizes iPS cell challenges
I wrote last week about disturbing results from scientists who found that iPS cells (also known as induced pluripotent stem cells) are attacked and rejected …
Why is cost-effective care so difficult to achieve?
Why don't more health organizations adopt cost-effective approaches to delivering care? That's the question addressed today in a New England Journal of Medicine perspective from …
The CDC wants to help you prepare for the zombie apocalypse
This is is an extremely clever way to get people to read a disaster preparedness plan: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently posted …
Does coffee lower the risk of prostate cancer?
My wife will readily attest to my coffee addiction: Four Barrel's amazing single pour coffee, Chemex, French press, Greek coffee, Americanos, siphon coffee, or even …
Scope wins a Web Health Award
The Health Information Resource Center just announced on Twitter the recipients of the Web Health Awards - and Scope has received a Bronze in the …
Breaking the silence about depression among men
Patient advocate Mark Meier understands first-hand the difficulties of living with depression: After years of ignoring his illness, he hit rock bottom in his thirties …
Is global climate change a threat to children's health?
Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, has written an interesting perspective on Vector that details some of the negative health effects of global climate change. For example: …
Optogenetics: Offering new insights into brain disorders
We've written quite a bit about optogenetics, a biological-research technology that was largely developed at Stanford and was designated by Nature Methods as 2010's "Method …
How depression in mothers affects kids
In case you haven't seen it, the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today on depression in mothers, and how a mom's treatment can …