Non-smoking campaigns that tell teenage boys that they'll get lung cancer in 30 years if they don’t stop smoking just don’t work. “But prevention programs that …
Month: March 2016
Here be dragons: Hard-to-sequence sections of genome remain
Although the human genome has now been mapped using numerous techniques, some parts remain resistant to accurate sequencing, nearly as mysterious as parts of the world …
Networking to save lives: A Q&A on ovarian cancer
Approximately 22,280 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and an estimated 14,240 will die from the disease in the United States this year. Ovarian …
“The saddest diseases”: A lifelong academic explains his work on neurodegeneration
Welcome to Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that introduces readers to some of Stanford’s most innovative biomedical researchers. Tom Clandinin, PhD, a Stanford professor of neurobiology, started …
Vitamin D levels connected to metastasis-associated protein, Stanford study finds
A preliminary study conducted primarily in laboratory mice indicates that breast cancer cells metastasize more readily when the animals have low levels of vitamin D. The …
Customized prescriptions instead of one-size-fits-all?
To say medicine has come a long way in the last few millennia is like saying the sun is warmer than a weenie in a picnic …
Digital clues for healthier drug combinations: Stanford’s Russ Altman at TEDMED
Imagine you’re a patient who has just started taking two new drugs: one for high cholesterol and the other for depression. Each drug has been …
Prison doctor: A week at juvenile hall
Stanford Medicine Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a week; the …
Not just an image: Radiologists boost communication skills
As a Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, I’ve had plenty of CT scans, mammograms, chest X-rays and MRIs during my diagnosis, therapy and 20 years of follow-up …
Eating disorders in college athletes highlighted in NBC Bay Area story
Years ago, as a college varsity swimmer, I was surprised when one of my teammates told me she had struggled with an eating disorder. I …
Using arts and communication to help physicians improve health, avoid suicide
Physicians are more prone to suicide than members of the general population, as stress, burnout and emotional exhaustion are becoming endemic to the profession. But …
Study shows huge lag in surgery in poor nations
In this country, if you suffer a broken leg, you can be reassured that there is a surgeon available to help fix it and there's …
Welcome to the new Scope
Welcome to the new, and improved, Scope. We had been so busy producing engaging posts on the latest advances in medicine and health over the last …