Stanford physician VJ Periyakoil, MD, is a strong advocate for palliative care being "woven seamlessly into treatment" to reduce families' stress levels and improve patients' quality of …
Month: April 2013
The future of preventive medicine is in the freezer
...Make that lots and lots of freezers. Freezers storing blood from thousands of generous research volunteers who donate samples when they are healthy - years or even decades …
Amyloid, schmamyloid: Stanford MS expert finds dreaded proteins may not be all bad
I have to thank my colleague Bruce Goldman for taking some time off recently and leaving me to tackle a story that's normally in his territory …
Experts weigh in on the new BRAIN Initiative
Following yesterday's news of a federal initiative to map the human brain, a group of experts came on KQED's Forum this morning to discuss the …
Food allergies and school: One mom’s perspective
I don't have personal experience with food allergies - the most I've been affected by the rising numbers of pediatric cases is that I've never …
Sweating the small stuff may harm your mental health
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." But that may not be the case when it comes to daily …
A federal push to further brain research
Updated 3:45 PM: In a just-published story from the Stanford News Service, writer Bjorn Carey outlines the roles that two other Stanford scientists - Karl Deisseroth, MD, …
Stanford center launches Huffington Post blog on the "very mysterious process" of sleep
Yesterday, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, introduced the Stanford Sleep Blog, which is being published by …
A mother’s story on what she learned from her autistic son
In a recent thought-provoking guest post on the NeuroTribes blog, autism activist Brenda Rothman discusses her personal journey coming to terms with her son's diagnosis …
Encouraging weight loss through group competitions for financial prizes
While debating what to order for lunch last week, my brother explained that he was participating in a Biggest Loser-style contest with a group of …
Depressed? Ask your doctor about tacos
During last week's break, I came across (and spent a good amount of time laughing over) a new parody video from Jeff Wysaski. The video pokes …
Programming cells for chemical production and disease detection
In case you missed it, an article Technology Review offers a closer look at how scientists are taking computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the …
California's new law on dense breast notification: What it means for women
Effective today, radiologists across California will be required by law to notify women when their mammography screening shows they have dense breast tissue. Approximately 50 …