It’s time to look back at this month’s five-most read stories on Scope. They were: Eating for good blood: Tips for boosting iron levels and hemoglobin: …
Month: July 2015
Stanford grad students design new tools for learning about nutrition, feelings
Mushrooms and tomatoes, veggies that are often reviled by preschoolers, star in a new app designed by a Stanford graduate student that aims to involve …
How the FDA is promoting data sharing and transparency to support innovations in public health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Study shows football helmet safety tests may not capture common cause of concussions
The football helmet is perhaps the most iconic piece of safety equipment there is, but we're just now beginning to understand how helmets can — and should …
Irrational fear of contagion fuels xenophobia, Stanford study shows
I have a very distinct memory of my grandfather dying from leukemia in an Iowa hospital. I peered in through a glass window, too scared …
Aspiring young doctors learn the ropes during Stanford summer program
Deep in the basement laboratory of Stanford’s Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, 31 high-school and college students stood in awed silence as surgeon Paul Chang, MD, …
Rebuilding Cassie’s smile: A lung transplant patient’s struggle with skin cancer
When I first met Cassie Stockton, she was seated in an exam chair in Stanford's dermatology clinic, getting cosmetic skin treatments. Lovely and young, just …
Should patients pay their way into clinical trials?
In a time of shrinking federal research budgets, here's one idea for a solution: charge patients to participate in clinical trials. Patients' payment could fund …
Women and men’s immune system genes operate differently, Stanford study shows
A new technology for studying the human body's vast system for toggling genes on and off reveals that genes connected with the immune system switch …
A how-to guide on “galvanizing medical students” to administer flu vaccines
Stanford's Flu Crew, an initiative that gets medical students out into the campus and greater community administering flu vaccines, recently published a paper validating the importance of …
Did extraterrestrials chew up my news release, or does artificial intelligence still have a ways to go?
Almost two years ago, in a Scope blog entry titled "Can Joe Six-Pack compete with Sid Cyborg?" I posed the question: "Just how long will …
Stanford Medicine is on Instagram
Do you use Instagram? We do! Stanford Medicine recently launched a page designed to capture the best of its places and people (the images above are …
Genetic testing and its role in women’s health and cancer screening
Years ago, when I first learned that genetic testing could help screen for some cancers, such as breast, ovarian and bone, it seemed like a …
3-D structure of key signaling protein and receptor revealed
Using ultra-bright X-rays at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a team of international researchers has captured the 3-D structure of a key signaling protein and its …
Stanford expert celebrates decision stopping testosterone testing in women’s sports
Female track and field athletes no longer need to have their natural testosterone levels below a certain threshold to compete in international events, the so-called …
Online curriculum helps students and public learn about influenza
Stanford's Flu Crew, which administers flu vaccines in and around the Stanford community, has had many successes over the last few years, which we'll highlight in a post …