Stanford Center on Longevity launched a design challenge last September to put student minds to the task of improving the daily lives of people with …
Month: January 2014
Grand Roundup: Top posts for week of January 19
The five most-read stories published this week on Scope were: You are what you read: The academic diet of the 21st-century medical student: Here, third-year …
A Stanford physician's take on cancer prognoses – including his own
In a New York Times SundayReview piece, Paul Kalanithi, MD, a chief resident in neurological surgery at Stanford, describes cancer prognoses from two perspectives, both …
Can sharing patient records among hospitals eliminate duplicate tests and cut costs?
A recent analysis of the impact of health information exchanges, which allow health-care providers to share patient records electronically and securely, shows the systems hold …
Study finds age at which early-childhood memories fade
I have a clear memory of standing near a crêpe-paper-lined wall of my fourth-grade classroom and deciding that age 9 was the time kids got …
From the Stanford Medicine archives: A Q&A with actor Matt Damon on water and health
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. Old it may be, but The Rhime …
Grant from Li Ka Shing Foundation to fund big data initiative and conference at Stanford
Researchers at the School of Medicine and Oxford University are currently developing ways to mine the vast amounts of biomedical data housed in public databases …
NIDA releases new guide on treating teen substance abuse
Only 10 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds who need substance abuse treatment receive services, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and …
Medicine X Live! to host Hangout on design thinking for patient engagement
Put on your design-thinking cap and join a Stanford Medicine X Live! Google+ Hangout and Twitter chat at 5:30 p.m. Pacific tomorrow. IDEO founding partner …
Group sessions shown to help women maintain healthy pregnancy weight
More than 50 percent of pregnant women, myself included, gain more weight than the recommended national guidelines. Personally, I had grand ambitions of maintaining my pre-pregnancy …
Another piece of the pulmonary-hypertension puzzle gets plugged into place
Pulmonary hypertension, a dangerous increase in the pressure of blood vessels in the lung, is one nasty disease, as I wrote in a Stanford Medicine article …
You are what you read: The academic diet of the 21st-century medical student
SMS ("Stanford Medical School") Unplugged was recently launched as a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on …
Helping older adults live independently using mobile-health technology
How much privacy would you be willing to give up to maintain your independence? If you're confused by the question, consider this Washington Post article …
Tips for physicians to engage patients in their own care
As I've learned from dance and yoga teacher training, the gift of a good instructor lies not simply in how much knowledge she may possess …
A rare-disease patient turns to the Internet for comfort, confidence in managing her condition
Overall there are 7,000 rare diseases affecting more than 25 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. But since fewer than 200,000 people …
We just had the best two months in the history of U.S. mental-health policy
For decades, descriptions of the status of U.S. mental health services have included references to service cuts, funding constraints and poor access to care. That …