I interviewed Army specialist Jayson Early by phone over the summer, shortly after he completed an in-patient program for PTSD at the Veterans Affairs hospital …
Month: November 2014
Tick tock goes the clock – is aging the biggest illness of all?
It's an uncomfortable truth that aging is the single biggest risk factor for many chronic diseases. It's also completely out of our control. (The alternative …
A physician realizes that she had "officially joined our nation of fellow sugar addicts"
Over on CommonHealth, Terry Schraeder, MD, an internist at Mt. Auburn Hospital and a clinical assistant professor at Brown University, speaks candidly about her realization …
Stanford scientist Lucy Shapiro: "It never occurred to me to question the things I wanted to do"
In the mid-1920s, Pearl Meister Greengard died giving birth to her son, the Nobel prize-winning scientist Paul Greengard, PhD. Decades later, Greengard and his wife …
Moving the needle on organ donation
For the thousands of people on organ donation lists, news of an available heart, or lungs, or liver can’t come soon enough. But many don’t …
Neighborhood’s “walkability” helps older adults maintain physical and cognitive health
Living in a walkable neighborhood could be an important factor in helping older adults maintain their physical and cognitive health, according to new research from the …
Child-mortality gap narrows in developing countries
Child-mortality rates in developing countries are decreasing. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that worldwide mortality rates for children under the age of five have …
Knight in lab: In days of yore, postdoc armed with quaint research tools found immunology's Holy Grail
A human has only about 25,000 genes. So, it’s tough to imagine just how our immune systems can manage to recognize potentially billions of differently shaped …
Examining the role of exercise in managing and preventing diabetes
More than 29 million adults and children in the United States are living with diabetes, and it's estimated (.pdf) that an additional 86 million Americans …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for week of Nov. 2
The five most-read stories this week on Scope were: Memory of everyday events may be compromised by sleep apnea: New research published in the Journal …
Getting a handle on screen time: tips for parents
Most parents know that they should keep screen time to a minimum, but how much is too much? Moreover, with the advent of many educational …
Better communication between caregivers reduces medical errors, study finds
Miscommunication between caregivers is one of the largest causes of medical errors, but a new study published this week in the New England Journal of …
Viva la hedgehog! Signaling protein also shown to be important in prostate growth
Ok, so it may *appear* that this post is just an excuse to post a cute hedgehog picture. After all, who could resist that little …
Stanford/VA study finds link between PTSD and premature birth
Scientists have long suspected that post-traumatic stress disorder raises a pregnant woman’s risk of giving birth prematurely. Now, new research from Stanford and the U.S. …
Stanford undergrad works to redistribute unused medications and reduce health-care costs
Sanchay Gupta arrived at Stanford with a strong interest in income inequality. In 2013, he spent two weeks of his summer vacation in Guatemala exploring …
Cheating jet lag: Stanford researchers develop method to treat sleep disturbances
Last month, I went to a conference back East. It was a short trip, four days, and I was jet lagged the whole time. …