Huge smiles were a common sight on campus last weekend, when Stanford Medicine's graduating class received their diplomas -- and a few additional letters after …
Month: June 2017
Stanford health researcher wins prize for using statistics to prevent rapes in Kenya
Mike Baiocchi, PhD, grew up in a family of nurses and passionate public health advocates. He says a liberal can-do attitude was baked into his …
New genome sequencing method helps diagnose a rare genetic condition
When the race to sequence the human genome was reaching a fever pitch in the early 2000s, when I was in high school, I couldn’t …
Addiction policies should accord with neuroscience, Stanford researchers argue
In "Neuroscience of Need: Understanding the Addicted Mind," an article I wrote for Stanford Medicine magazine a few years ago, I tried to describe the hijacked brain …
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Poetry lover and aspiring physician-scientist
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Elizabeth Beam, a MD-PhD student who hopes to help patients with mental illness.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Elizabeth Beam, a MD-PhD student who hopes to help patients with mental illness.
Genes that affect diseases and other traits may be scattered across genome
Biomedical researchers tend to envision genes for traits from height to Alzheimer's disease as being clustered in a limited number of pathways. Two assumptions have …
What tiny antennae on our cells can tell us about the genetics of obesity
In 1675, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, discovered a tiny antenna that sticks out of our cells. Until the last 20 years …
Health care fixes possible, Stanford scholars write
Rather than replace the Affordable Care Act, legislators should take steps to fix it, a pair of Stanford-affiliated scholars urge in a recent Foreign Affairs …
The unwritten curriculum of med school
They say to avoid going to the hospital during July, which is when the newly branded doctors start working after receiving their medical degrees a …
How to encourage muscle stem cells to replace missing muscle? A familiar home, a few friends and some healthy exercise
I've been writing a lot recently about ways to tinker with muscle stem cells to encourage them to repair muscles injured by overuse or trauma. …
Stanford’s Michele Barry on why we need more women leaders in global health
As the women began to clap, Michele Barry, MD, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, realized she’d touched on something big. It was …
The soul of a souped-up machine: Workhorse eye-scanning device can do virtual biopsies
A minor tweak to a major workhorse eye-scanning technology, described in a Nature Communications study, could lead to “virtual biopsies:" visualizing tissue in 3D at microscope-quality resolution, without having …
Stanford Medicine launches Health Care Trends Report
Big data will transform health care in the future, but more needs to be done to train doctors and patients in data management and analysis. …
To debug your gut (and maybe your brain, too), make nice to the bugs that live inside it
Each of us is carrying about 100 trillion microbes in our gut. They're tiny and squirmy, but if you could line them all up end …
“Being thin doesn’t mean I’m healthy”: A cancer survivor reflects on her weight
If you told high school-me that I could one day be thinner than any goal weight I’d ever set, I probably would have asked where …
What does it mean to be well?
Aspiring to a higher level of wellness? We recently spoke with Catherine Heaney, PhD, associate professor of psychology and of medicine with the Stanford Prevention Research …