Stanford's BeWell has posted a helpful piece with information on pre-diabetes and how monitoring your fasting blood glucose level can help you stay healthy. Additionally, …
Month: November 2013
Now available: Full-length video of Stanford's Roundtable on Happiness
Last month, I wrote about the Stanford Roundtable on Happiness and included a short video with a sample of tips for happier and healthier living that the panel and …
Stanford geneticist discusses genomics and medicine in TEDMED talk
In a new video of a TEDMED Great Challenges event titled "Genomics and Medicine: Where promise meets clinical practice," Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante, PhD, joins colleagues "to …
Free online course aims to educate about "pressing public health threat" of antibiotic resistance
Are you smart about antibiotics? That’s the question the CDC is asking as part of its week-long effort to educate people about antibiotic resistance – something …
Stanford study in transplant patients could lead to better treatment
To keep a patient healthy following an organ transplant, doctors must prescribe the right balance of immune-system-supressing drugs: The medications need to be strong enough to …
Ask Stanford Med: Pain expert responds to questions on integrative medicine
Sometimes the best medicine is staying healthy. As more Americans look for ways to improve their health, prevent disease and manage pain, the subject of …
"Pruning synapses" and other strides in Alzheimer's research
To date, Alzheimer's disease research has largely focused on controlling the brain plaque amyloid beta. But an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle suggests that …
Going digital in medical school
I was intrigued by a recent post from the medical student/blogger over on The Biopsy, who writes that he wants his medical education to be "paperless, searchable, organized, …
Anxious children’s brains are different from those of other kids
Every little kid has anxieties, whether it’s the monsters under the bed or the big fierce dog around the corner. Most of us consider such …
Stanford hearing study upends 30-year-old belief on how humans perceive sound
For the past three decades, scientists have widely believed that the way humans and other animals adapt to sounds at different volumes was a two …
Subjects for doctors to avoid when using social media
To post, or not to post? Sometimes, especially on Twitter, it's a fine line to walk. Over on Wing of Zock, Bryan Vartabedian, MD, lists …
A closer look at the way our brains process humor
We’re all familiar with the positive feeling of amusement we get when watching "America’s Funniest Home Videos" or when laughing about a good joke with …
Museum sheds some light on early electric medical devices
This Wired.com story on the 20th century medical devices housed at the Bakken Museum had me at "electric torpedo fish." As the story explains, we've experimented …
Stanford expert weighs in on new guidelines for statin use
As you may have read, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recently released a new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along …
Denver rapper's music motivates kids (of all ages) to eat better
As I write this post, I'm staring down a seven-layer bar that my colleague just nudged a bit closer to my laptop. Under normal circumstances, …
Brain study offers "intriguing clues toward new therapies" for psychiatric disorders
Over on Science Now today, Los Angeles Times writer Geoffrey Mohan describes how neuroscientists here have "for the first time traced how three brain networks mediate …