Foldscope, the ultra-low-cost paper microscope designed to aid disease diagnosis in developing regions, is back in the news. For a story appearing in today's San …
Month: March 2014
An emergency medicine physician's take on honoring your emotions
But how do you really feel? Over on KevinMD.com, Anoop Kumar, MD, reflects on his personal and professional experiences with cancer. The emergency physician cares …
Join Ask Stanford Med for a live discussion about scleroderma on Wednesday
Although scleroderma is derived from the Greek words meaning "hardness" and "skin," its symptoms affect far more than patients' epidermis. The complex, rare disease can …
At Med School 101, teens learn that it's "so cool to be a doctor"
"I was once in high school," anesthesiologist Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, told a roomful of ninth-through-twelfth-graders Friday at Med School 101. Now he runs a …
Double vision: How the brain creates a single view of the world
About a decade ago, Stanford Bio-X director Carla Shatz, PhD, found that some proteins from the immune system seemed to be playing a role in …
Examining an app's effectiveness at helping those with PTSD
Can a mobile app help people manage the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder? As some local readers may have heard on KCBS today (or may remember …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of March 23
The five most-read stories this week on Scope were: Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope: Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering, has developed an …
Exploring popular health myths and how they influence health-care decisions
This week on the TEDMED Great Challenges series, guests discussed popular health myths, ways these myths spread. and how doctors and patients can better evaluate …
Goo inside bones provides structural support, study finds
As high-schoolers swarm the med school campus today, hold human brains and satisfy their taste for science, I can't help but wish the show "You …
Med School 101 kicks off on Stanford campus today
As a reminder, our annual Med School 101 event kicks off this morning on the Stanford campus. At the day-long gathering, around 140 high school …
Policing the editor: Stanford scientists devise way to monitor CRISPR effectiveness
As a writer, I think a lot about editing. Will this sentence work here? Maybe I should change this word. Argh - a typo! But …
In Boston, doctor's orders may include discounted bike-share memberships
Some Boston docs are delivering a dose of preventive care the old-fashioned way. Encouraging physical exercise under the city's new "Prescribe-a-Bike" program, physicians at Boston Medical …
Using Viagra to treat a rare childhood deformity: A research update
Researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford are investigating a surprising treatment for a rare and potentially dangerous childhood deformity. As I've described previously, pediatric …
AAMC's Health Equity Research Snapshot features Stanford project on virtual health advisers
To improve public health, Stanford and academic medical centers around the country conduct research to identify solutions to systematic and preventable inequities in medicine and …
Live tweeting sessions at Stanford's Med School 101
On Friday, around 140 students from ten local high schools will once again come to the Stanford campus for our annual Med School 101 event. …
Cereal-eaters: How much are you really consuming?
As any fan of lightweight, delicate Cocoa Krispies knows (though perhaps I'm generalizing my experience), sometimes it's difficult to judge how much cereal you're really …