If the only hope for your baby daughter lay in a brand-new experimental drug, would you want doctors to give it to her? What if …
Month: December 2016
A new tool may help detect and remove toxins in drinking water
The recent crises in Flint, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey demonstrate that water supply contamination is a problem in the United States, not just in …
Random Acts of Flowers delivers encouragement to Stanford Hospital patients
When Camille Kennedy enters patient rooms at Stanford Health Care, she's reminded of the isolation she felt when she was admitted to the hospital after …
“It will be okay”: Lucy Kalanithi speaks at TEDMED 2016
Much of the story of Paul Kalanithi's death is known, chronicled beautifully in the memoir When Breath Becomes Air and in this Emmy-nominated Stanford Medicine …
The health effects of legalizing marijuana: A Q&A with a Stanford drug policy specialist
Recreational marijuana legalization in California and seven other states leaves quite a few unanswered questions. What are the health risks? Are there benefits? Will children …
Mystery solved: How Stanford’s Lloyd Minor discovered and treated unusual ear syndrome
Cindy Hirsch was at a professional conference for audiologists in 1997 when suddenly she just didn’t feel right. It was an unusually noisy conference for …
Stanford’s Roeland Nusse wins 2017 Breakthrough Prize
Congratulations to Stanford developmental biologist Roeland Nusse, PhD, who has been awarded a $3 million 2017 Breakthrough Prize for his work in understanding connections between embryonic …
Better science communication is critical, The New Yorker’s Michael Specter argues
As part of Stanford's Bio-X Seminar Series, Michael Specter, staff writer at The New Yorker, spoke to an audience of over 70 researchers and students recently on the …
New models may help predict diabetes progression
Diabetics exposed to consistently high blood glucose levels can develop serious secondary complications, including heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and ulcers that require the …
Paying attention is a matter of making the brain a little more awake
We all know that feeling – we’re awake but somehow unable to pay attention. Or we are paying attention but still miss what it is …
How prions help yeast feast on a wide range of sugars
Prions are notoriously dastardly — after all, these infectious proteins are the cause of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But researchers have been turning …
How does burnout affect NICU caregivers and their patients?
We’ve all felt burned out at work due to prolonged stress — physically and emotionally exhausted, unmotivated, frustrated and maybe even cynical. But in the …