One highlight of yesterday's Childx conference: an inspiring keynote address by Michael Lu, MD, associate administrator of maternal and child health of the Health Resources …
Month: April 2016
Dean Lloyd Minor kicks off the second annual Childx conference
Stanford’s second annual Childx conference is off to a great start. This year’s event, taking place today and tomorrow at the Li Ka Shing Center …
New, stretchy material could lead to artificial muscle or skin
Stanford chemical engineer Zhenan Bao, PhD, dreams of developing artificial skin that could allow people with artificial limbs to distinguish between a firm grasp and …
Stanford’s Childx conference begins today
The two-day Childx conference on maternal and infant health kicks off this morning. You can follow it on Twitter @StanfordMed, where we'll be live tweeting most …
After heart transplant, who survives? New study offers tools to tell
Despite careful patient selection, only about 75 percent of heart recipients survive three years after the transplant surgery. Identifying the patients most in need of additional …
Filtering pollution one nostril at a time
Last year I followed a team of Biodesign fellows from India as they spent six months at Stanford learning the biodesign process: identifying medical needs …
“You can do anything for four weeks”: Advice for clerkships
In two weeks, I'll be starting clinical rotations - yea! I finally get to start doing what doctors do. But I've been terrified, which I think …
Delving into the bipolar brain
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 6 million American adults have bipolar disorder, a psychiatric illness marked by episodes of mania and depression that …
Lessons from the top: Science’s Marcia McNutt offers hard-won wisdom on leadership
In a talk here on campus yesterday, Marcia McNutt, PhD, shared lessons she's learned from leading top U.S scientific institutions, including her current post as …
Coping with the stages of a debilitating illness
It was September 19, and I was sitting on my bed in the apartment I had rented with my best friend, having just arrived back …
The right wrench for older immune systems’ much-needed brake job?
As we age, our immune response tends to grow both hyperactive and unfocused, like a car with lousy brakes, a distracted driver and a brick …
Predicting chemo-induced heart damage using iPS cells
It's a double-edged sword. The chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, which is used for the treatment of many types of cancers, also causes severe, lasting heart damage …
Angels and devils: A Stanford neuroscientist uncodes the brain’s role in decision-making
Stanford neuroscientist and psychiatrist Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, launched his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year with a big question: "Why do we …
Writer Anne Lamott headlines annual Medicine & the Muse showcase
Each year, hundreds of people gather on the med school campus for Medicine & the Muse, an annual extravaganza that celebrates the interplay between arts …
Mealworms win top prize in Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge
Ten student teams from universities around the world convened in San Francisco and Berkeley last weekend to pitch low-cost solutions designed to tackle major global health …
Packard Children’s anesthesiologists invent safe, fun way to distract children before surgery
Waiting to have surgery can be nerve-wracking, especially if you're a kid. At Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, pediatric anesthesiologist Sam Rodriguez, MD, wanted to …