Stanford's Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, is well-known for his work on narcolepsy, but he's also a leading researcher in Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS), an extremely rare, …
Month: August 2011
Micro-robots venture where others are too big to fit
You may think medical apps and 3D tissue printing are pretty cool medical technologies, but these nano-robots are some stiff competition. These tiny robots can …
Packard Children's Adolescent Health Van celebrates 15 years
The Adolescent Health Van, a mobile clinic for uninsured Bay Area youth, is about to celebrate its 15th birthday. As a release from Lucile Packard …
An aging HIV-positive population faces unique medical challenges
Medical advances have transformed HIV infection from a certain death sentence to a potentially survivable (if still incurable) disease, and the result is a growing population …
Humans share history – and a fair amount of genetic material – with Neanderthals
If you have found yourself inexplicably offended by Geico's "caveman" commercials, new research may have an explanation: that most humans share up to 4 percent …
Seven points not often seen in a hospital interoffice memorandum
On November 27, 1963, Charles Jack Price, administrator of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, wrote: At 12:38 p.m., Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. …
Medical schools create programs to address physician shortage in rural United States
The relative scarcity of physicians has reached critical levels in many rural communities of California and small towns across the country. To address the health-care …
Man receives life-saving transplant thanks to health-care reform and a truck
In the most recent issue of Inside Stanford Medicine, my colleague tells the almost-difficult-to-believe story of Milton Gilmer, a man who literally drove himself to the hospital …
Eat a carrot and exercise – or your iBird dies
Why would 300 million people want to waste time playing a smartphone game like “Angry Birds,” where players hurdle kamikaze birds at evil pigs trying …
Hypnosis helps baseball manager quit tobacco habit
As if I needed another reason to be a San Francisco Giants fan, I just learned that the skipper of the reigning world champs has …
Stanford team writes new recommendations for reading athletes' ECG results
Every time an athlete, who seems to be in the peak of physical health, dies suddenly during competition because of an unknown heart defect, the …
Prenatal exposure to pets may lower early allergy risks
I consider myself lucky when it comes to not having any food allergies, but I am allergic to cats and some dogs and, as I’ve …
Seniors help build a blueprint for a healthier city
With the help of a Stanford study on healthy aging, low-income residents of a Northern Californian senior housing facility have become fresh food crusaders, revitalizing …
Minimally increased mobility can reduce duration of hospital stay
According to an Israeli study published today in Archives of Internal Medicine, geriatric patients who walk around while at the hospital may reduce the duration …
Medical journal wins award for reporting on problems with Medtronic bone product
We've written extensively about a recent Stanford study (.pdf) that links health problems and an increased cancer risk with a bone-growth product sold by Medtronic. Now The Spine …
Surgeon and scientific illustrator use art to educate
Many of the great anatomical advancements throughout history were collaborations between anatomists and artists. In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, well, he was both. …