Imagine a prehistoric human mother raising her baby outside of any community or family structure, with no help from others. It sure doesn't fit with …
Month: May 2015
Study means an early, accurate, life-saving sepsis diagnosis could be coming soon
A blood test for quickly and accurately detecting sepsis, a deadly immune-system panic attack set off when our body wildly overreacts to the presence of …
Stanford Medicine 25 Skills Symposium to focus on building leaders for the bedside medicine movement
Physicians once relied on the five senses to diagnose patients and used sight, touch, sound and smell to assess health and identify illness. Today, medical technologies …
Flip it up: How the flipped classroom boosts faculty interest in teaching
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 …
Capturing the metabolic signature of obesity
Worldwide obesity rates have more than doubled since 1980, and today the majority of the global population live in areas where being overweight kills more …
University of Glasgow medical student makes learning anatomy a feast for the senses
If you've ever heard the phrase "you are what you eat" and playfully wondered which part of you is composed of coffee and sweets, take …
Cancer cells spread by “disguising themselves,” study shows
A team of Swedish researchers discovered what may be a key component in how cancer spreads throughout the body: by masquerading as immune cells! Sneaky …
Navigating a rare genetic disorder with a positive attitude
We’ve partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Inside the brain of optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth
"Lighting the brain," a recent New Yorker profile, offers insight into the brain of Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, the well-known innovator of both optogenetics and …
Vinod Khosla shares thoughts on disrupting health care with data science
Prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is a strong believer that data science will reinvent health care as we know it - and it's position he …
Reporting and treating cholera: Soon, there could be an app for that
In the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that shook Haiti in January 2010, clean water for drinking and hygiene was scarce. This set the stage …
Countdown to Big Data in Biomedicine: Leveraging big data technology to advance genomics
video platform video management video solutionsvideo player During last year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described how the …
Study of outcomes for early preemies highlights complex choices for families and doctors
A tiny fraction of babies born at 22 weeks of gestation survive to childhood without major impairments or disabilities, according to a study recently published …
Ventricular assist device helps teen graduate from high school
When 17-year-old TJ Balliao was diagnosed with heart failure earlier this year, his doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford told him that he needed …
Research for All: Congressional bill aims to bring gender equality to medical research
Gender matters in medical research. That's the reasoning behind the Research for All Act (.pdf), a recently introduced Congressional bill that would require scientists conducting …
Stanford Medicine’s community open house happening on May 16
Mark your calendar for Health Matters, Stanford Medicine's community open house, being held this year on Saturday, May 16. There will be wellness dogs and …