If I had to live with chronic pain, I'd be a pain to live with. I'm a lap swimmer. A few years ago, I developed …
Month: May 2013
“Live Because:" Living a fuller life with chronic illness
We’ve partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
More than shiny: Stanford's new sculpture by Alyson Shotz
Video PlatformVideo Management Video SolutionsVideo Player Even if I didn't know anything about what went into creating Three Fold, Stanford Medicine's new sculpture by Alyson …
Lessons from five million patient and caregiver posts
What can be learned from posts written on online forums by patients - many with chronic disease - and their caregivers? The online health community …
Special care to protect newborns’ fragile brains
When babies are born with serious health problems, physicians’ main goal is to keep them alive. Thanks to decades of advances, such as support for …
Big Data in Biomedicine conference opens this week
The Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off at Stanford this week. The event, which will be held at the School of Medicine’s Li Ka Shing Center for Learning …
Image of the Week: A prize-winning image of mitosis
This spectacular image was taken by Indiana University research associate Jane Stout and depicts a scene from mitosis where chromosomes (highlighted in blue) are pulled …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of May 12
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: A full workout in just seven minutes? Science says so!: Don’t have time to hit the …
Researchers reveal promising advancement in the way water is purified
Stanford engineers have developed a nanoparticle that could lead to a new way to purify water. In a press release, writer Andrew Myers provides details on the work …
Using computers to fight disease
In this short animation, John Hengeveld, marketing director for high performance computing at Intel, shares his story of undergoing an appendectomy and learning that, as …
At Stanford event, cancer advocate Susan Love talks about "a future with no breast cancer"
With conversations still fresh in the air about Angelina Jolie’s decision to remove her healthy breasts as a protective measure against a high probability of …
Stanford researchers cook up new way to measure cellular protein levels, explore genetic diversity
Last night I listened squeamishly to my 13-year-old daughter and her friends compete in a (loud!) Fear-Factor-type eating contest in the other room (a sample …
Registration opens for Stanford Medicine X
Updated 06-05-13: John Sculley will no longer be a keynote speaker at the conference due to a scheduling conflict. Additional keynote speakers will be announced …
Shortfall of physician-scientists: "A national concern"
The importance of the physician-scientist is the focus of a new Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine. Writing that an increasing number of MDs …
Free Stanford online course on child nutrition & cooking
My lovely friend Maya Adam, MD, recently launched a free online course, “Child Nutrition and Cooking,” through Coursera, a web-based platform for “massive open online …
Hearing loss patient discusses why Stanford research gives her hope for an eventual cure
Over on the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss blog, Nat Lauzon, a voiceover artist and radio DJ, shares her personal story of living with …