Humiliation, belittlement, and harassment of medical students have long existed within medicine. According to those in the field, it’s a problem perpetuated by the profession's …
Month: December 2016
The next big flush: Wastewater analysis could prove key to community health, researchers say
Could analyzing sewage offer new insights on public health? Quite possibly, according to an interdisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are investigating and developing new …
Biology Cloud Lab offers remote access to laboratory experiments
Hundreds, even thousands, of students could perform laboratory experiments using an interactive, online system that its Stanford creators have dubbed the Biology Cloud Lab. The …
The beast in my belly: Living with a chronic liver disease
On the morning of December 23, 2010, after having my gall bladder removed, I was shown a picture of my liver and told I had a …
The future of Medicaid and Medicare: A Q&A with Stanford Health Policy scholars
In the wake of the presidential election, discussions about the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act have expanded to include debate about Medicare. Will …
Exploring the puzzle of belief and healing
The healing powers of belief and faith have long been known. But it's taken scientists many years to start to understand some of the biochemical …
Seriously singing: Steve Goodman balances roles as physician, researcher and baritone
I first learned about Steve Goodman’s off-campus talent several months ago, when a YouTube video of him performing the national anthem at the San Francisco Giants …
The stethoscope at age 200: Obsolete? Necessary?
The modern-day stethoscope, in the words of a colleague, "first came to life in 1816 when René Laennec, a reportedly shy French physician, encountered a …
Space travelers beware: High-speed solar protons may mess up your hashish high
Stanford neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz, PhD, is a very serious researcher with a focus on the causes of, and treatments for, chronic epileptic seizures in children. …
Research transparency depends on sharing computational tools, says John Ioannidis
A team of scientists including Stanford's John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used …
FDA Commissioner urges universities to help unlock access to biomedical data
At a discussion Wednesday at Stanford's medical school, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, didn't address political changes in Washington, mentioning only that …
“Choke point” for most-common form of childhood epilepsy identified
Epilepsy, a pattern of recurrent seizures, affects 1 in 26 people over their lifetime. So-called absence epilepsy (also called petit mal seizures) is most common among …
Smartphone apps prove useful for heart research, new study shows
More cardiovascular researchers might want to consider using smartphones as a research tool based on the results of a new study published today in JAMA …
Bread baking becomes business for Stanford infectious disease researcher
Making bread is an art, science and passion project for Fiona Strouts, PhD, a Stanford research scientist in infectious diseases. Her baking began as a …
Stanford team helps patient who is “unique in the world”
When Allyssa Lawson was an infant, her doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford struggled to understand her unusual symptoms. Allyssa, who was born in …
Books I couldn’t put down in 2016
I love books that I can’t put down. In fact, if I find myself reading a book that I’m willing to set aside to do such …