What if seeing genetic-test results related to your risk for a disease helped motivate you to reduce that risk? A team of Stanford researchers led by …
Month: September 2011
Autism therapies: It still comes down to parents
There has been a recent flurry of new discoveries about the nature and cause of autism (revised estimates about the role of the environment vs. …
Stanford scientists work towards developing a "painometer"
About two years ago, Stanford neurologist Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, was asked by defense lawyers in a workman’s compensation case to serve as an expert …
European experts debunk six myths about flu shot
Think you don't need a flu shot because you're not in a high-risk group? Or feel that ingredients in the vaccine may be unsafe? You should head over to Scientific …
A need to provide infertility counseling to cancer patients
In today's San Francisco Chronicle, Erin Allday is reporting on experts' belief that chemotherapy has a greater impact on fertility than previously suspected - and that female cancer patients should …
A social networking service for digestive health?
As we've previously written about on Scope, microbe hunters are using a host of new technologies to discern the origin of specific diseases and gain …
Scientists take a divide-and-conquer approach to combating childhood obesity
As you've probably heard, the percentage of obese children in the United State has more than doubled during the past three decades. Past research has …
Identifying weaknesses in the immune system by tracking flu infections in the body
While signs and symptoms of the influenza virus are simple enough for most patients to spot, the process of what happens at the molecular level …
Care About Your Care campaign wants to empower patients to improve their quality of care
Will educating the American public about how to identify and obtain better medical care effectively reduce the country's health-care costs? That's the goal of a …
Image of the Week: Remembering Sept. 11
Today the United States pauses to remember the lives that were lost in during Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. This image of the "Tribute in Light" …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Sept. 4
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Can yoga help women suffering from fibromyalgia?: A study recently published in the Journal of Pain …
Slight decrease in food-borne illnesses, reports CDC
On the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announcement introducing pilot programs to improve methods of identifying sources of tainted food, comes news …
Report questions whether U.S. is adequately prepared for future public health threats
When it comes to public health preparedness, the United States may not ready to respond to a massive disaster, whether it's the result of a …
Mending blood vessels with glue instead of sutures
As previously reported here, Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, a microsurgeon at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, and colleagues have developed a sutureless method of reconnecting severed blood …
Health reform opponents lose in another appellate court
But the government didn't, exactly, win. Today the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided appeals of district court decisions from Virginia about the Affordable Care …
Video: How a virus changes the world
This clever video by TakePart, which appears to be connected to the upcoming Steven Soderbergh move Contagion, succinctly explains how influenza viruses spread, how a …