The inaugural Childx conference was held here last month video interviews featuring keynote speakers, panelists and moderators are now on the Stanford YouTube channel. To …
Month: April 2015
“Us” and “them”: Losing the patient perspective
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 …
Monitoring heart failure from home
Sometimes, the best way to prevent a visit to the hospital is to become your own care provider. That's the theory behind a new Stanford-led …
Stanford bioengineer discusses mining social media and smartphone data for biomedical research
During the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Stanford bioengineer and geneticist Russ Altman, MD, PhD, spoke about the possibility of collecting data directly from …
The Ebola crisis: an ethical balancing act
Should Ebola patients in West Africa be given unproven treatments? How should clinicians decide which patients to treat, given the limited availability of some drugs? …
A lesson in voice and anatomy from an opera singer
This past Thursday, I watched an opera singer's throat as he sung. Not the bulging Adam's apple above his shirt collar, but the shiny lumps and …
My baby, my… virus? Stanford researchers find viral proteins in human embryonic cells
One thing I really enjoy about my job is the opportunity to constantly be learning something new. For example, I hadn't realized that about eight …
Can a single drug outsmart many kinds of viral invaders?
We've got plenty of effective antibiotics - maybe even too many- to knock off bacteria we don't like. But when it comes to viruses, it's …
Identifying relapse in lymphoma patients with circulating tumor DNA
Cancer patients in remission often live on a knife's edge, wondering if their disease will recur. This possibility is more likely in some types of …
The next challenge for biodesign: constraining health-care costs
This post is part of the Biodesign’s Jugaad series following a group of Stanford Biodesign fellows from India. (Jugaad is a Hindi word that means …
Stanford’s Karl Deisseroth awarded prestigious Albany Prize
Prizes abound for the most skillful of scientists, but a few stand out as particularly significant ones. The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and …
Scope wins award for its “creative and effective approach” to promoting academic medicine
We're happy to announce that Scope is a 2015 GIA Award for Excellence winner. The awards, given by the Association of American Medical Colleges, were designed …
Remembering the strange vigils of war through poetry and dance
In his Civil War-era poem, “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field,” Walt Whitman describes watching over a soldier dying on the battlefield as a …
Image-interpretation software could open window of treatment for stroke
Restoring blood flow to the brain quickly after a stroke is key to damage control as well as to optimal recovery. But restoring blood flow …
“Father of Sleep Medicine” talks with CNN about what happens when we don’t sleep well
A good night's sleep is often the first thing to go when we have an important work deadline or health issue. I know this from …
“You just get lifted away from the earth”: Film spotlights dance program for Parkinson’s patients
Tomorrow and Saturday, "Capturing Grace," a documentary film following participants of a dance program for people with Parkinson’s disease generated by New York’s Mark Morris …