This quarter, during the block of our Human Health and Disease course dedicated to learning about the pulmonary system, I conducted one of the scariest …
Month: May 2017
Fitness trackers accurately measure heart rate but not calories burned, Stanford study shows
Your fitness tracker knows how fast your heart beats when you bicycle to work and how your heart flip-flops when your sweetie surprises you with a kiss. …
Big Data in Biomedicine Conference kicks off on Wednesday
Stanford Medicine's two-day Big Data in Biomedicine Conference begins this morning. The conference, now in its fifth year, focuses on the intersection of data science, technology …
Mowing down cancer: A podcast featuring Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi
To explain her work, Stanford chemistry professor Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, often turns to analogies. Cancer cells, she says, are like M&M'S with a hard sugar coating. …
Working to bring online medical education to South Africa
Stanford lecturer Maya Adam, MD, has a long connection with South Africa. Her mother is South African, and Adam grew up both there and in Canada. Now, …
Simply Streisand: On matters of the heart
By any measure, Barbra Streisand is an entertainer without peer. She has sold more albums in the U.S. than any other female recording artist. She’s won …
Scientists make strides in hunt for genetic causes of heart disease
In 2007, Stanford cardiologist Tim Assimes, MD, PhD, started along an investigative path to discover the root genetic causes of coronary artery disease (CAD). Ten …
Stanford researcher explores use of ketamine to treat severe mental illness
Obsessive-compulsive disorder was debilitating Geuris "Jerry" Rivas, a New York native. He would spend endless hours every day organizing his posters, comic books and videos. He …
Stanford Medicine magazine reports on sex, gender and medicine
The practice of medicine would be a lot simpler if humans came in only one sex. And, as I learned while editing the new issue …
Celebrating 40 years of “monkey business”
Since 1977, a group of volunteers gathers every Monday at the Los Altos Senior Center for some "monkey business." Armed with bits of yarn, ribbons …
Teaching Chinese clinicians about maternal hemorrhage management
For the last three years, thanks to an ongoing effort with China's Maternal and Child Health Association, Stanford's Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education …
The future of clinical trials considered during Dean’s Lecture Series address
A number of changes could affect the future of clinical trials, including the increased involvement of health-care providers, said Thomas Pike, the former CEO of …
Price of protection: Immune-gene version, great at combating leprosy, is not without drawbacks
Leprosy begins with a bacterial infection and, after five to 20 symptom-free years, can end in severe nerve, skin, vision and respiratory-tract damage and limb …
Don’t think of heart disease as inevitable, Stanford expert says
Heart disease continues to be the largest single cause of death in the United States and worldwide. But familiarity seems to breed contempt. Most American …
Countdown to Big Data in Biomedicine: On personal data and sustainability
Perhaps you're familiar (or very familiar) with PubMed, the go-to database for biomedical research. Or, perhaps you've spent a rainy Sunday exploring historical anatomical images. …
In study, female OB/GYNs less likely than males to receive top patient satisfaction scores
Gender bias can rear its head in unexpected ways. In a new study from Stanford researchers, female OB/GYNs were 47 percent less likely to receive …