Earlier today, my colleague Krista Conger reported on a technique that induces egg growth in infertile women with primary ovarian insufficiency. In the video above, the researchers …
Month: September 2013
Oh, baby! Infertile woman gives birth through Stanford-developed technique
Kazuhiro Kawamura, MD, PhD, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan, doesn’t usually cry after …
Developing a mini microscope that could help researchers detect the seeds of cancer earlier
An important aspect of cancer treatment is stopping the spread of the disease. Yet the tiny fragments of tumors that travel in the bloodstream spreading …
Found: Potential new way to predict some multiple-sclerosis patients’ disease course, drug response
"I have multiple sclerosis. Will I become crippled in the future? Or is it going to be the 'mild' form? Of the dozen medications out …
Image of the Week: Stanford Medicine X 2013
Stanford Medicine X is in session and #MedX is trending on Twitter. Pictured above, Nick Dawson, a member of the conference's ePatient advisory panel, captures proceedings …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of September 22
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Communicating with terminally ill patients: A physician’s perspective: Written as a response to the piece by …
Live tweeting Jack Andraka's Medicine X keynote
The Medicine X core conference kicked off yesterday, and today's events begins with a keynote speech from Maryland high school student Jack Andraka. At age …
Big data = big finds: Clinical trial for deadly lung cancer launched by Stanford study
My colleague Bruce Goldman has written elegantly here before about how large biological databases (a phenomenon commonly known as "big data") are a treasure trove …
Stanford Medicine X 2013 begins today
Stanford Medicine X, a conference on emerging technology and patient-centered medicine, opens today. Things kick off with a keynote address at 8:15 AM Pacific time on the evolving …
Retraining the brain to stop the pain
“They’re probably just growing pains,” my mom would say in an upbeat, informative tone of voice, as though that insight would serve as a dab …
Global survey highlights the need for people to keep track of walking distance
I tend to measure how far I walk by how much my feet hurt after I kick my heels off at the end of the …
Using mindfulness interventions to help reduce physician burnout
As part of an assignment from our master teacher, Annie Carpenter, to create and deliver a free program for a population in need, one of my yoga-teacher friends designed …
Ask Stanford Med: Cheri Mah responds to questions on sleep and athletic performance
Whether you're a student-athlete superstar or the mayor of your local gym, chances are your performance on the field, court or treadmill could be influenced by …
Addressing psychiatric "bus therapy" and its underlying problems
In the current issue of JAMA Psychiatry, Stanford's Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, a researcher in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH, an …
419 million year-old fish fossil may reveal origins of the human jaw
As a kid, I used to ponder the origins of my unusually square jawline while looking in the bathroom mirror. After reading this story in …
Neural networks show impairment from fragile X syndrome
Fragile X syndrome – caused by a gene mutation on the X chromosome – doesn’t get a lot of press, but it’s the most common form …