Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, PhD, is an instructor in Stanford's Department of Otolaryngology and a scientist who studies, among other things, how elephants hear. In this just-published Neurotalk …
Month: February 2014
Stanford ethicist discusses brain death
What exactly is "brain death?" And how does it differ from what you and I think of as death? That question and others are answered …
Attending to signs of preeclampsia in late-stage pregnancy
As recently written about on Scope, the California Quality Care Collaborative organized a task force and produced a toolkit of recommendations for treating preeclampsia, a …
In between: Learning medicine beyond the hospital
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 …
Stanford Medicine X conference issues call for abstracts and presenters
Stanford Medicine X, a conference that explores how emerging technologies are advancing the practice of medicine, improving health and empowering patients, is now accepting submissions for …
A reminder that addiction is a chronic disease
This morning on KQED's Forum, guests discussed addiction in the wake of the apparent heroin overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. During the show, Stanford's Keith …
Goggles Optional: Stanford podcast aims to “influence the culture of how science is viewed"
Communicating science to a non-specialist audience is an art. Or is it a science? David Zhang, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in immunology and rheumatology, …
Introducing the Scope e-newsletter
Today, we're excited to be rolling out a new Scope e-newsletter. The biweekly digest delivers via e-mail a curated selection of Scope content, including entries …
Girls don’t have riskier sex after the HPV vaccine
When the first vaccines were introduced against the human papillomavirus, some people worried that this anti-cancer vaccine would give young women the wrong idea. The …
Humble anti-fungal pill appears to have a noble side-effect: treating skin cancer
Curing cancer isn't cheap; developing new drugs comes with a multimillion-dollar price tag. Plus, there's the rigmarole of animal testing, IRB reviews, FDA approval, and …
Chemistry technique improves cancer surgery
For many cancers of the stomach and intestinal tract, removing the tumor is the best way of treating a patient. The problem is that …
Celebrating Carl Djerassi's 90th birthday with his latest play, "Insufficiency"
The play's the thing wherin Carl Djerassi, PhD, will celebrate his 90th birthday. The latest work of the Stanford professor emeritus of chemistry (widely known …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for week of January 26
The five most-read stories this week on Scope were: Permission: Learning to thrive in medicine by breaking my own rules: In the latest installment of SMS …