Kidney failure patients on dialysis often have other chronic diseases - heart disease topping the list. They're prescribed an average of 12 pills a day …
Month: October 2014
Director of Stanford Runner's Injury Clinic discusses treating and preventing common injuries
It may surprise you to learn that past studies show that runners have a 50 percent chance of sustaining an injury that disrupts their training, …
Unbroken: A chronic fatigue syndrome patient’s long road to recovery
“Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb,” said Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Unbroken, about how …
Why “looking dumb” in medical school isn’t such a bad thing
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Using supercomputers to spot drug reactions
Remember the drugs Avandia and Vioxx? Avandia, an anti-diabetic drug released in 1999, worked wonderfully against diabetes. But it was also shown to increase users' …
Competition keeps health-care costs low, Stanford study finds
The term market competition usually sparks a mental image of business suits and ties, not white coats and stethoscopes. Yet even the health-care system plays …
Shake up research rewards to improve accuracy, says Stanford's John Ioannidis
Lab animals such as mice and rats can be trained to press a particular lever or to exhibit a certain behavior to get a coveted …
“Every life is touched by suicide:” Stanford psychiatrist on the importance of prevention
Most people shy away from talking about suicide. Me too – I have some personal ties to the topic that still stab every time the …
Paradox: Antibiotics may increase contagion among Salmonella-infected animals
Make no mistake: Antibiotics have worked wonders, increasing human life expectancy as have few other public-health measures (let's hear it for vaccines, folks). But about …
Despite steep price tag, use of hepatitis C drug among prisoners could save money overall
There's nothing free about the revolution that's shaking up hepatitis C treatment. A slew of newer drugs, including sofosbuvir, are nearly eliminating the virus with …
Pioneering cancer nurses guide patients through maze of care
Learning you have cancer is a life-changing diagnosis. Even after the initial shock wears off, the gauntlet of medical care necessary to manage the disease …
Stanford Medicine magazine traverses the immune system
If you want to understand the human immune system, try studying humans - not mice. That's what Mark Davis, PhD, urges in a special report …
"Stop skipping dessert:" A Stanford neurosurgeon and cancer patient discusses facing terminal illness
Updated 3-11-15: Paul Kalanithi passed away on March 9. *** Updated 10-23-14: Paul Kalanithi spoke about this topic on campus earlier this week; more on the event, …
Grand Roundup: Week of Oct. 12
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 …
Weathering heights: Crane operator makes the climb for hospital expansion
Meet A.J. Barker, second-generation crane operator extraordinaire, who's currently working on the new Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford from 16 stories in the air. In a …
"Don't go to bed with a malaria mosquito:" exploring World War II medical posters
After exploring Stanford's collection of historical medical images last week after a tour of the School of Medicine, I got hooked. Hooked on historical medical …