In a Stanford BeWell Q&A, Mark Abramson, DDS, the founder and facilitator of Mindfulness-Meditation Based Stress Reduction programs at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and the Stanford …
Month: June 2014
Another blow to the Hedgehog pathway? New hope for patients with drug-resistant cancers
If you're a regular reader of this blog, or follow cancer literature, you'll have heard of a signaling pathway called Hedgehog that is activated in …
Will hypothesis or data-driven research advance science? A Stanford biochemist weighs in
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on the Stanford …
When ten days = a lifetime: Rapid whole-genome sequencing helps critically ill newborn
It's an 'edge-of-your-seat' story: The newborn's heart had stopped multiple times in the hours since her birth. Her doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of June 22
The five most-read stories this week on Scope were: Empowered is as empowered does: Making a choice about living with lupus: Inspire contributor Pattie Brynn Hultquist writes …
NIH Director “particularly impressed by the practicality” of Stanford-developed Foldscope
During the White House’s first-ever Maker Faire, Francis Collins, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, was among those vying for a chance to …
Study shows women prefer less-intense pain at the cost of a prolonged labor
As a friend's due date approached, she confided in me that the thought of going into labor was terrifying. It was her first pregnancy and …
In poorest countries, increase in midwives could save lives of mothers and their babies
The World Health Organization reports that most maternal deaths are preventable; yet, preterm birth complications rank among the top 10 causes of death in low- …
Stanford alums aim to bring back a community approach to treating chronic disease
Inspired by shared medical appointments and Blue Zones, areas in the world where people live measurably longer lives, fourth-year medical student Sohan Japa, MBA, and …
NIH associate director for data science on the importance of "data to the biomedicine enterprise"
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and interviews with keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on …
Scope honored as among the best in digital health resources
I'm happy to announce that Scope has again received a Web Health Award. Now in its 16th year, the awards were designed "to recognize high-quality …
John Ioannidis discusses the popularity of his paper examining the reliability of scientific research
Back in August 2005, Stanford professor John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, published “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” in PLOS Medicine. The article surpassed one …
Stanford research shows rape prevention program helps Kenyan girls "find the power to say no"
The San Francisco Chronicle has a great story today about a collaborative project that is reducing rape and sexual assault of impoverished girls in Kenya. …
PCOS linked with higher risk of type 2 diabetes even in young women who are not overweight, study finds
Women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is present in 5 to 10 percent of women of childbearing age and is associated with reproductive and metabolic …
Student transitions in medicine: putting blinders on
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 …
Talk from the hand: the role of gesture in verbal communication
Another reason to revitalize commedia dell'arte: Gestures help us decipher meaning in communication. Okay, I might have made a leap from one Italian study's conclusions, …