Inspired by a previous wig-wearing, in-lab parody of a Lady Gaga song, graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley have produced and starred in …
Month: December 2013
Health psychologist responds to questions on coping with holiday stress
In the latest edition of Stanford University's Open Office Hours, health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, answers reader-submitted questions on coping with stress during the holiday …
Living with disorders of sex development
A touching story in Pacific Standard about people born as intersex individuals caught my attention today. Writer Alice Dreger begins by quoting a note she …
News of a celebrity's cancer may prompt people to quit smoking
Celebrities draw attention to fashion and beauty trends, charitable causes and fitness crazes, among other things. Now, a study has found that media attention given to a …
Stanford bioengineer developing an “Electric Band-Aid Worm Test”
“Those children are sitting on the graves of their siblings,” said a Ugandan colleague, in a tragic reminder of the impact of childhood diseases in …
Can repackaging aspirin get more people to take it daily for prevention?
Not many over-the-counter drugs can substantially improve your health. However, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, aspirin can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease …
Staphylococcus aureus holes up in upper nasal cavity, study shows
A posse led by Stanford microbe sleuth and microbiologist David Relman, MD, has apprehended Staphylococcus aureus, one of the most notorious sources of serious infections, lurking …
Stanford's Sanjay Basu named a Top Global Thinker of 2013
In case you haven't seen it, Foreign Policy magazine recently announced its Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. These movers, the piece accompanying the list …
Stanford undergrad studies cellular effects of concussions
Symptoms of a concussion after the moment of impact or trauma may be obvious (such as passing out), fuzzy (feeling slow or having difficulty remembering), …
Medicine X to host Google+ Hangout with ePatients
If you followed the news on this year's Stanford Medicine X conference, you might be familiar with the term ePatient: "empowered, engaged in your care, …
Stanford winners Michael Levitt and Thomas Südhof celebrate Nobel Week
Though more than two months have passed, it seems like only yesterday that we announced Thomas Südhof, MD, and Michael Levitt, PhD, as Nobel winners. Now …
"I'm glad that we were there": Stanford emergency-response team returns home from the Philippines
Time for another (feel-good) video? The SEMPER team that's been in the Philippines for the last few weeks made it home safely yesterday; in this …
Depictions of obesity in children’s movies
As winter break approaches for schoolchildren, movie-watching in theaters or snuggled together on the couch may be on the family calendar. But while ratings alert …
On the ground in post-typhoon Philippines
More from the Stanford emergency-response team in the Philippines: Two new Stanford Hospital videos - this one and the piece above - offer photos and …
How epilepsy patients are teaching Stanford scientists more about the brain
Earlier this fall, we linked to a KQED piece highlighting how treating and researching patients with severe epilepsy is helping scientists understand functions of the …
Baby steps: Therapy that helps the deaf to hear
What better way to highlight how cochlear implants work than by sharing the story of 1-year-old Lucile Ross, an utterly adorable participant in Stanford’s growing new …