A better awareness of ethnic and sexual preference-related factors is needed to improve quality of life for gay men and minorities treated for prostate cancer, …
Month: April 2012
Twins update: Formerly conjoined twins strong and healthy
Watching Angelina and Angelica Sabuco run, play and chase each other like any other pair of two-year-olds, it's hard to believe the twin sisters were …
Are some teens' brains pre-wired for drug and alcohol experimentation?
A study involving approximately 1,900 14-year-olds found that differences in adolescents' brain activity may put some at higher risk for drug and alcohol experimentation than …
Ask Stanford Med: Cardiologist Jennifer Tremmel taking questions on women’s heart health
It may surprise you to learn that more than 432,000 women die each year from heart diseases, which is ten times as many women who …
Image of the Week: Malaria developing
This incredible scanning electron micrograph shows the reproductive cells, called oocytes, of a malaria parasite developing on a mosquito's intestinal wall. Malaria parasites are protists …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Apr. 22
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Time-lapse video captures childhood from birth to 12 years: Filmmaker Frans Hoffmeester recorded his daughter, Lotte, every …
Study shows women may overestimate the effectiveness of common contraceptives
New research suggests women may not fully understand the effectiveness of the most popular forms of birth control: the Pill and condoms. The study found …
Researchers gain new insights into skin's waterproof properties
A New Scientist story published today highlights work by Swedish researchers to identify the basic molecular structure of the skin layer that forms our body's …
Turn in your old pills on April 28
In support of National Take Back Prescriptions Drugs Day on Saturday - April 28 - physicians and law-enforcement officials are asking patients to help prevent pill …
Anna Deavere Smith tells human stories during health-care summit
It's not every healthcare innovation summit keynote address that can make a person cry--twice, in my case. But then, not every organizing committee brings Anna …
Stories from inside the scanner
The Atlantic ran a fun piece today spotlighting six interesting ways people have undergone an MRI scan. I'll leave most of it for you to …
Social media in medicine: Going from "entertaining to life-changing"
There's a nice opinion piece on VentureBeat today on how social media can be used to improve modern medicine. Alex Blau, MD, writes: Think, for example, …
Can playing Tetris reduce flashbacks and aid in the treatment of PTSD?
Focusing on a highly engaging visual-spatial task, such as playing the tile-matching puzzle video game Tetris, may help in reducing patients' frequency of flashbacks and …
U.S. Chief Technology Officer discusses health-care reform's effects on innovation
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park kicked off the 2012 GSB Healthcare Innovation Summit at Stanford yesterday with a fast-paced talk about how the implementation of …
New project will help people donate their data to research
Genomics and electronic medical records hold a wealth of information for health researchers. But privacy concerns and ethical issues of data ownership prevent scientists from …
In animal study, anxiety increased cancer severity
In a Stanford study appearing today in PLoS ONE, researchers show that anxiety-prone mice develop more severe cancer then their calm counterparts. The work, which is …