The five most-read stories this week on Scope were:
Walking and aging: A historical perspective: An article in The Atlantic this week offered details on recent research into how moderate to vigorous walking can improve mental acuity in aging populations.
How to keep safe while operating on Ebola patients: Two U.S. surgeons with a combined 30 years of working in developing countries have prepared and disseminated well-defined protocols for operating on any patient with the virus or at-risk of having contracting the virus. Stanford surgeon Sherry Wren, MD, and her collaborator discuss this in a San Jose Mercury News op-ed piece.
Healing hands: My experience being treated for bladder cancer: In this Inspire column, an anonymous cancer patient shares his experiences and expresses gratitude for those "whose healing hands, both literally and figuratively, reached out to help me."
Summer’s child: Stanford researchers use season of birth to estimate cancer risk: Partnering with Lund University, researchers here are using Sweden’s national registries for birth certificates and medical records to track how factors during gestation and soon after birth – called perinatal factors – affect cancer risks.
Stanford experts offer more information about enterovirus-D68: In this Q&A, Yvonne Maldonado, MD, service chief of pediatric infectious disease at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and Keith Van Haren, MD, a pediatric neurologist, discuss the enterovirus-D68 respiratory illness and neurologic symptoms that might be associated with it.
And still going strong – the most popular post from the past:
Researchers explain how “cooling glove” can improve exercise recovery and performance: The “cooling glove,” a device that helps people cool themselves quickly by using their hand to dissipate heat, was created more than a decade ago by Stanford biologists Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller, PhD. This video demonstrates the device and explains how it can be used to dramatically improve exercise recovery and performance.
