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Month: October 2012
Stanford forum on the future of health care in America posted online
Last month, the Stanford Health Policy Forum hosted an event on the future of health care in America featuring bioethicist, physician and former White House …
Abraham Verghese discusses the importance of hands-on patient exams
Today in the Wall Street Journal, Stanford physician and best-selling author Abraham Verghese, MD, discusses his writing career and the School of Medicine's bedside medicine initiative, …
Crowdsourcing the identification of cancer cells
In a effort to speed up the process of analyzing millions of pathology slides, British charity Cancer Research UK is enlisting the help of the …
Why doctors prescribe opioids to patients they know are abusing them
As an addiction psychiatrist, I was recently asked to consult on whether a patient hospitalized for severe low back pain suffered from opioid addiction. The …
Hormone therapy soon after menopause onset may reduce Alzheimer's risk
I may be boyish, but I'm old enough to know plenty of women who've agonized over whether it's time to begin hormone therapy. Simply put, …
Stanford researchers working to combat concussions in football
We've written extensively on Scope about concussions in football. Numerous researchers here are investigating and working to prevent the problem, and in the above video some …
Study: If Americans better understood the Affordable Care Act, they would like it more
When it comes to people's understanding and view of the Affordable Care Act, confusion and mixed feelings seem to reign. But if education efforts were to correct …
Metamorphosis: At the push of a button, a familiar face becomes a strange one
What's up with those rude characters you see coming down the hall every single day, and then - just as you get near enough for the standard, semiconscious exchange …
New grandparents should brush up on baby-care practices, survey finds
When my son was a few days old, my mom peeked into his bassinet and said "I see you've got him sleeping on his back." …
Research shows small studies may overestimate the effects of many medical interventions
John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, chief of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, has been involved in long-standing efforts to improve preclinical studies and the ways in …
Researchers explore colonoscopy's effect on the incidence of colorectal cancer
Colonoscopy, the most common colorectal cancer screening method, could explain a significant decrease in the incidence of that type of cancer over the past decade. …
Can sleep help prevent sports injuries in teens?
Researchers here have shown that sleep may have a positive effect on athletic performance. And new findings presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics' national conference hint …
A conversation about the importance of conveying complex scientific concepts to broad audiences
Last month, Kristin Sainani, PhD, a clinical assistant professor at the School of Medicine, launched an online science-writing class that teaches researchers how to clearly …
Comprehensive review of humans' expansion out of Africa could yield medical advances
Stanford researchers have completed a new analysis of the anthropological and genetic history of humans' migration out of Africa. The account, which appears in the Proceedings …
Tropical disease treatments need more randomized, controlled trials, say Stanford researchers
We in the United States may not think about it much, but more than one billion people are affected by tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis …