It doesn't, in my mind, get any cuter than a baby in a Halloween costume. And 15 babies in costume? Even better! Lucile Packard Children's …
Month: October 2014
Ebola: This outbreak is different
Misinformation about Ebola blankets the web. To clarify priorities, and spur action, Stanford global health specialist Michele Barry, MD, penned a strongly worded essay published …
A call for medical malpractice reform
A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers a look at the current decline in medical malpractice suits and makes some …
Luminous mouse brain among photomicrography competition winners
Nikon announced the winners of its annual Small World Photomicrography Competition yesterday, and among the group was this stunning image. The photo was taken by …
Nature tracks 100 most-cited scientific papers
After a researcher painstakingly collects the data, analyzes it, sweats over the manuscript that describes the findings, and finds a journal to publish it, a …
Experts discuss high costs of health-care – and what it will take to change the system
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, visited Stanford this week for a Health Policy Forum, "Can we put a price on good health? Controlling the …
A look at NIH’s new rules for gender balance in biomedical studies
In May, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, co-authored a Comment piece in Nature, outlining new requirements for biomedical researchers …
New molecular imaging could improve bladder-cancer detection
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. For bladder-cancer surgeons, an image can be worth many lives. That's because a crucial method for …
What happens when the immune system attacks the brain? Stanford doctors investigate
The first time he flew into a psychotic rage, Paul Michael Nelson was only 7 years old. He stabbed at a door in his family's …
Spotting broken DNA – in the DNA fix-it shop
It's Thursday. And here's this week's Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford's most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to innovators …
Stanford physician shares his story of treating Ebola patients in Liberia
For a month, emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, found himself in the remote, dense jungle of northeast Liberia in the heat of the battle against …
“Prehab” routines before cancer surgery help patients bounce back faster
If you’ve ever had surgery, especially an orthopedic one, you’ve probably had rehabilitation therapy. In recent years, orthopedic surgery plans have begun to include a …
Move over CRISPR, there’s a new editor in town: Stanford-devised approach cures hemphilia in mice
A lot of attention has been paid lately to the idea of genome editing. This technique allows researchers to precisely modify an animal's DNA to …
A Stanford neurosurgeon discusses advances in treating brain tumors
Last year, an estimated 70,000 people were diagnosed with a primary brain tumor, which originates and remains in the brain, and far more will develop …
Assessing the opioid overdose epidemic
In recent years, doctors and policy-makers have become aware of the dangers of prescription opioid medications like methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone (which is sold as …
"It’s tough feeling like you're always in a position to be judged" and other thoughts on medical school
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 …