Pediatric surgeons have been slow to adopt a technique that could keep their patients safer during a common but risky hospital procedure. But the Stanford …
Month: March 2013
Developing a computer model to better diagnose brain damage, concussions
In an effort to better evaluate and prevent concussions and head traumas, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a computer model to identify what …
NPR explores the need for improving diversity in clinical trials
In case you missed it yesterday, NPR had a segment discussing the importance of having more diversity among participants of clinical trials: ...[A]ccording to the …
Examining the clinical benefits of "virtual" house calls for Parkinson's patients
Past research has shown that telemedicine can help reduce health disparities between rural and urban areas and be as effective as in-office visits for diagnosing and …
New findings on aspirin and melanoma: Another outcome of the Women's Health Initiative
There has been a lot of interest in the Stanford study suggesting that aspirin reduces the risk of melanoma in women; dermatologist Jean Tang, MD, PhD, spent …
Trial results promising for new anti-clotting drug
Research published online yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine shows a novel anti-clotting drug to be superior at preventing blood clots during coronary …
Ask Stanford Med: Pediatric immunologist taking questions on children’s food allergy research
Food allergies among children are a growing public health concern. An estimated six million children in the United States suffer from food allergies, and nearly …
New research shows aspirin may cut melanoma risk
Researchers at Stanford have conducted the largest study ever examining new methods for preventing melanoma and found that women who took aspirin on a regular …
Image of the Week: Probing the interior of a cell using 'magnetogenetics'
The average adult human body is composed of trillions of cells. Now imagine the complexities involved in trying to study the interworkings of these microscopic …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of March 3
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Ask Stanford Med: Director of Stanford Headache Clinic taking questions on headache disorders: This week, Robert …
Synesthesia inspires Chocolate Heads performance
The Chocolate Heads, a group of Stanford student dancers, musicians, and visual and spoken-word artists, will be joining jazz bassist William Parker in a performance …
Chronobiologist: Enough with daylight saving time
As an enemy of daylight saving time I am a fan of writer /chronobiologist Bora Zivkovic's lucid denunciation of this outmoded practice. In a new …
Stanford bioethicist speaks out about layers of stem cell regulations
Say you're a human embryonic stem cell researcher (odds are, that at least some of the readers of this blog fit this description). If so, …
Tomayto, tomahto: Separate genes exert control over differential male and female behaviors
Sparks flew at a symposium hosted by the Stanford Center for Health Research on Women & Sex Differences in Medicine, which I attended yesterday. One …
Malfunctioning glia – brain cells that aren’t nerve cells – may contribute big time to ALS and other neurological disorders
The field of neurology - or neurobiology, or neuroscience, take your pick - is named in honor of a talented tenth of the cells in …
Touring the microscopic worlds of the human body
Scientific illustrator Dee Breger specializes in creating images using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), which has an incredible level of magnification. In this recently posted …