A strong advocate for peer-to-peer collaboration in health care, Roni Zeiger, MD, believes that networks of highly-motivated, well-informed patients and caregivers empowered by emerging technologies …
Month: July 2013
State stem cell agency installs Dean Lloyd Minor, honors Philip Pizzo
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine yesterday installed Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford's School of Medicine, as a member of its governing board. The …
Why untreated sleep apnea may cause more harm to your health than feeling fatigued
Today on the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine blog on the Huffington Post, sleep neurologist Mitchell Miglis, MD, explains why individuals with untreated …
Abraham Verghese uses Google Glass to demonstrate how to begin a patient exam
Updated 07-30-13: A change was made to the last paragraph. *** A strong advocate for “hands-on” medicine, Stanford physician Abraham Verghese, MD, led the effort …
Close encounters: How we're rubbing up against pathogen-packing pests
Uh, why do I hate mosquitoes? Let me count the ways: "Mosquitoes don’t pollinate anything. They don’t crowd out even more obnoxious competitors. Their only …
Stanford Medicine X hosts live chat on Thursday with Bryan Vartabedian and Wendy Sue Swanson
This September, prominent physician-bloggers Bryan Vartabedian, MD, and Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, will teach a master class about issues relating to physicians' online identity at …
Using engineered bacteria to fight intestinal parasites
Over a decade ago, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found that a common organic insecticide - a crystal protein made by bacteria …
Very small embryonic like stem cells may not exist, say Stanford researchers
There's a shake-up happening today in the world of stem cell research. Very small embryonic-like stem cells, or VSEL cells, have been proposed by some …
"Hey now, hey now, the chemo's done:" Stanford oncology nurses show support for patients in song
Even before he began radiation and chemotherapy, Stanford Hospital & Clinics patient Kenneth Olson had endured a difficult surgery, which included two skin grafts, to …
Using genetic testing to enhance students' knowledge of personalized medicine
Within each of our DNA are secrets about our health. And with the explosion in genetic testing and genomics research over the last 10 years, …
Study highlights social media's potential as a public-health tool
We've written before about the use of social media to raise awareness about health-related issues or bring people together for a common cause. Today's Health …
Stanford online course on statistics and medicine teaches students worldwide how to interpret data
This summer, nearly 16,000 students are learning how to interpret data and analyze provocative medical questions through Stanford's free online course “Statistics in Medicine." The …
Obesity is a disease – so now what?
Much has been written about the American Medical Association's decision to categorize obesity as a disease. In a recent Huffington Post column, Larry Cohen, MSW, …
Night of the living dead gene: Pseudogene wakes up, puts chill on inflammation
Because proteins do the vast bulk of visible work inside every living cell, scientific efforts to understand the workings of the genome (the sum of …
More evidence that boosting Americans’ physical activity alone won't solve the obesity epidemic
Although a significant portion of counties in the United States reported that Americans' physical activity increased between 2001 and 2009, the percentage of obese adults …
A call to end the force-feeding of Guantánamo prisoners
Over the weekend, the Daily Beast published a piece from Stanford medical student Nuriel Moghavem and Marty Makary, MD, MPH, a Johns Hopkins University surgeon, …