This morning there is a great piece over on Obesity Panacea in which Travis Saunders looks at the reporting of studies in the media and …
Month: December 2011
How fast-food restaurants respond to limits on free toys with kids' meals
Do ordinances that restrict the ability of restaurants to give away toys with unhealthy kids' meals have an impact? A new Stanford study looks at …
Physicians, women's health advocates express disappointment over Plan B decision
As you likely read in the news today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reversed a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to lift …
Using Twitter as a "hedenometer?"
Here's an interesting new use of Twitter, courtesy of Rachel Bernstein at EveryONE: Today, we added to this growing body of work with a report …
Study shows rotating night shift work may raise risk of Type 2 diabetes
There's no shortage of scientific evidence showing that working the night shift can take a toll on your health, including increasing the risk of cancer, …
Children's hospitals need to promote healthy eating, UCLA study says
In case you missed it, the San Francisco Chronicle had an interesting story over the weekend about the quality of food served at California's 14 …
Founder of Diabetes Mine discusses the power of patient communities
Over on the Medicine X blog, Julia James has written a great profile of Amy Tenderich, a member of the Medicine X advisory board and …
Examining how the brain processes music
Research published earlier this year showed that listening to music releases the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain and sends pleasure signals to the rest of …
Drew Endy contemplates new modes of computing in medical research
In an essay today in the New York Times today, Stanford Professor Drew Endy, PhD, discusses the future of computing and the potential of developing …
Mouthpieces tell researchers about force and direction of football head impacts
Stanford researchers recently outfitted about two dozen university football players with high-tech mouthpieces to measure the number, force and direction of head impacts during games …
Is fitness level more important than body weight in boosting heart health?
Maintaining or improving your fitness level, even if you don't shed any pounds, may help reduce your risk of death from heart disease and stroke, …
Cancer's next stage: A report from Stanford Medicine magazine
It's the best of times - and a most precarious time - for cancer research. The new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, a special report …
Cancer's Pulitzer Prize winner: Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD
The epic tome on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, is subtitled, A Biography of Cancer. I was intrigued by the biography portion of the …
National Cancer Institute introduces free text message cessation service for teens
While teen smoking rates have declined overall since 1999, the drop in the number of high school smokers has slowed in recent years. Now the …
What will become of the stethoscope?
This morning on 33 Charts, Bryan Vartabedian, MD, offers a fascinating look at the history and changing role of the stethoscope in medicine: But more …
Image of the Week: Medical center architecture tour
The Lane Medical Library offers monthly walking tours of Stanford University Medical Center's architecture. The tour traces the medical school's history from 1850s San Francisco …