It's a big week for developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD. On Friday, she will be awarded the National Medal of Science - an honor often referred …
Month: January 2013
Ask Stanford Med: Answers to your questions about willpower and tools to reach our goals
Almost a month into the New Year, some of you may feel like your willpower to stick to your 2013 resolutions and meet certain goals is running …
Image of the Week: Three-photon microscopy images in a mouse brain
In a paper (subscription required) published this week in Nature, Cornell researchers demonstrated a new way of taking high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the brain's inner …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Jan. 20
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Nature/nurture study of type 2 diabetes risk unearths carrots as potential risk reducers: Stanford researchers used …
Personality-based approach can reduce teen drinking
A new paper published this week in JAMA Psychiatry draws exciting conclusions at the intersection of two fields dear to me: pediatrics and personality science. …
Living with colorectal cancer: One patient's story
A recent Stanford Hospital & Clinics video tells the story of a patient with colorectal cancer whose treatment wound up being much different than he …
Mixing humor and pop culture to boost flu shot rates
My colleague wrote today about how researchers at Johns Hopkins have devised a new method to track flu trends using Twitter. Over on Healthland, Bonnie …
Improving methods for tracking flu trends using Twitter
Researchers are working to develop new ways of using Twitter messages, Facebook interactions and Google queries to predict surges in influenza cases, gain insights into …
Stanford students launch NeuroTalk podcast series
NeuWrite West, a new student group at Stanford dedicated to improving communication among scientists and between scientists and the public, has launched a podcast series. …
Can social media improve the mental health of disaster survivors?
Over on Mind the Brain today, Shaili Jain, MD, a psychiatrist with Stanford and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, explores the way …
Developing a universal translator for surgeons
Steven Schwaitzberg, MD, chief of surgery at the Cambridge Health Alliance at the Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, is on the hunt for technology to …
Dates announced for 2013 Medicine X conference
This September, the Medicine X conference returns to Stanford. Larry Chu, MD, executive director of the conference, announced on the Medicine X blog that the event …
Examining the inter-workings of the brain when reading silently
Today over on Neurotic Physiology, there's an interesting piece about the inter-workings of your brain when you read silently. The post examines a study (subscription …
Defending researchers who publish studies behind a paywall
Last week, I linked to a blog entry that took scientists to task for having their research published in journals that can't be accessed without a …
Stanford introduces web-based mini-fellowship program on successful aging
In an effort to promote successful aging and end-of -life care for multi-cultural older adults, Stanford recently launched the Internet based Successful Aging (iSAGE) program. …
New blog on behavioral and social sciences research from the NIH
The National Institutes of Health's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research introduced a new blog today titled The Connector. More details from an NIH …