It’s time to look back at this month’s five most-read stories on Scope. They were: Vitamin D levels connected to metastasis-associated protein, Stanford study finds: Researchers here …
Month: March 2016
New research uncovers secrets in the brains of sleeping seniors
Sometimes scientists discover the best new stuff by disproving their own hypotheses. This seems to be what happened for a group of sleep researchers who …
Countdown to Childx: Talking Zika with a Stanford infectious disease expert
Stanford pediatrician and researcher Desiree LeBeaud, MD, has been quite busy lately. Outside of her clinical and research responsibilities, LaBeaud has been called on extensively …
Promising new path for refractory rheumatoid arthritis patients?
I blogged last week about some important new findings concerning the underlying causes of rheumatoid arthritis. As I mentioned then, it takes a long time - it can …
Hacking for the win: Stanford students design new technology for nurses in need
Early fever detection is crucial for patients with sepsis, but it's often a challenging task for nurses in settings where hospital wards are severely understaffed …
Dear Future Self, this is the type of resident you should be
Dear Future Self, Remember that day on surgery you stepped into the OR for the first time? How you had no idea you were supposed …
Bias busting: Brief educational session may help pave way for women to lead medical schools
The fact that men vastly outnumber women as leaders -- in positions ranging from senior professors to deans -- in top academic medical schools is likely news …
“We haven’t invested enough in primary care”: Stanford expert talks about California’s doctor shortage
As I waited for my routine checkup recently, I read a report on the critical shortage of primary care physicians in California – ironic reading …
Refining our stories about cancer
Fifty percent of all deaths from cancer in the United States may be preventable, according to the American Association for Cancer Research. Yet, little cancer research …
Unmasked: molecular mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis revealed
In a new study in Science Translational Medicine, Stanford rheumatologist and immunologist Connie Weyand, MD, and her colleagues have figured out what sparks the aberrant activation …
Survivors of rare Stanford domino transplant meet, celebrate
The first thing Linda Karr asked her doctor after her heart transplant surgery at Stanford Hospital was, "How is my heart donor doing?" That question …
Computer-based program helps physicians monitor and treat chronic pain more effectively
Few things hit the pause button on life quite like pain and, of all the types, chronic pain is perhaps the most disruptive and frustrating. …
Resurrected drug fights multiple viruses
Virus are elusive foes. It seems like every year there's a new one in the news - Ebola recently and now Zika - not to …
Nowhere to hide: Blood-based cancer monitoring gets ever more sensitive
A quick update on a fascinating advance in cancer detection that I've written about before, which is the increasing ability of researchers to detect …
An inside look at athletic training
When I got a call from Stanford athletic trainer Sarah Lyons recently, I was a bit confused. Sure, Scope covers fitness as it relates to …
Stanford researchers featured in new, online Wall Street Journal gallery
Science lovers, there's a new site we think you'll like: Called "Eye on Science," it's a gallery produced by the Wall Street Journal that showcases …