Kids home from school, empty cubicles at work… Why all the coughing and sneezing this fall, even before the really cold, wintery time of year? …
Month: November 2012
New technique for visualizing blood flow may advance study of arterial diseases and therapies
A new fluorescence imaging technique developed by Stanford scientists offers the ability to view the pulsing blood vessels of living animals with, as described in a news …
Fruit flies in space! Researchers hope to learn more about the heart through space-station experiment
The new frontier in heart research is sending fruit flies into space to study the effects of weightlessness on their teeny tiny hearts. Spaceflight, apparently, …
Is the worm turning? Early stages of schistosomiasis bladder infection charted
Think you've seen unattractive couples before? If you look up, you'll have the pleasure of viewing the ugliest couple you've ever seen: a male and …
Study highlights need to raise awareness about radiologists' role in health care
New findings presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) show that patients have little knowledge of the role …
The stress of having too many Facebook friends
As you may have read about, a new U.K. report is suggesting that the more Facebook friends a person has, the more stressed out he or she …
NIH re-thinking its rules on grant application submissions
Updated 11-28-12: As Nature's Meredith Wadman writes today, the NIH has decided not to change its resubmission policy. *** 10-16-12: In case you didn't see …
Report shows 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. have experienced mental illness in the past year
A recently released federal report offers a snapshot of the psychological health of Americans. The survey shows that nearly one in five adults in the …
Longreads pick: The story of "a band of rebels" working to improve health care
Speaking of Longreads, I just learned that an article from Stanford Medicine made last week's list of Top 5 Longreads of the Week. In case …
33Charts' Bryan Vartabedian talks about physician blogging
I gave a presentation on blogging at the Association of American Medical Conferences’ annual meeting earlier this month, and one of my co-panelists was Bryan Vartabedian, MD. I …
Former long-term smoker shares her lung cancer screening journey – part III
My colleague Sara Wykes, a smoker for 30 years, recently took the first step toward finding out what damage those decades of smoking may have …
Researchers show way to reduce prevalence, spread of TB in former Soviet Union
Rates of tuberculosis and drug-resistant TB are among the highest in the world in countries of the former Soviet Union. Noting that "tuberculosis doesn’t stop …
Flu-vaccine study participant shares his experience
Stanford researchers are currently recruiting participants for a clinical trial to study the immune response to an experimental, seasonal DNA flu vaccine and boosted by …
An in-depth look at C-sections
There's a nice article in the current issue of Harvard Magazine on C-sections and their rising rates. One online commenter calls it "quite likely the most …
On a mission to transform end-of-life care
No one likes talking about dying, but Stephanie Pincus, MD, MBA, believes we all need to do more of it. Pincus is one of the key people …
A call to support, not shame, obese people
Encourage people to be healthier, while not shaming them for their weight? Seems pretty un-provocative (and reasonable) to me, but as CommonHealth's Carey Goldberg writes today, …