My gym routine has been suffering lately. So I felt a pang of guilt writing my most recent release about muscle soreness after exercise or …
Month: June 2017
The importance of engaging communities in research
Getting help from the community to identify and address health concerns is critical to public-health researchers. That was the message of one of the sessions …
Stanford inventor designs low-cost science tools for the world
Henry Ford, the father of the first affordable automobile, once said, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude... constructed of the best …
“The Still Point” — A performance inspired by pain and love
“Play all the musics. Climb all the things.” That was the last text Benjamin Robison received from his friend and fellow Stanford medical student Maria …
A look back at Health Matters, Stanford’s community day
On a sunny Saturday late last month, more than 1,500 people came to campus for Stanford Medicine's annual Health Matters event. During the free community day, …
In gene expression, separating the gold from the dross
In the last year, each of half a dozen stories we have done on the work of Purvesh Khatri, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Stanford, …
Graduating Stanford Biodesign fellows offer hard-won lessons in innovation
It’s been nearly a year since a dozen engineers, MDs and business specialists — the 2016-17 Biodesign Innovation Fellows — walked into the Byers Center …
CTs predict survival by measuring frailty following hip fractures, study shows
When elderly people fall, a hip fracture is a common and serious result. It is typically treated with surgery, but physicians need a better way …
Stars of Stanford Medicine: In pursuit of the “Aha!” discoveries
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Massa Shoura, a postdoc who studies genome architecture.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Massa Shoura, a postdoc who studies genome architecture.
Learning about biology and human disease from lemurs
For the past six years, a team of researchers from Stanford has been foraging the jungle in Madagascar, catching mouse lemurs and sampling the blood …
Female biomedical faculty progress toward parity
I was a junior at Stanford in 1991 when professor of neurosurgery Frances Conley, MD, objected to the promotion of a colleague to acting department …
Ketamine: Fresh hope for the treatment of OCD
This 1:2:1 podcast features a conversation with psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez on the use of ketamine to treat OCD.
This 1:2:1 podcast features a conversation with psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez on the use of ketamine to treat OCD.
When doctors don’t have enough to give
Every time I walk into a bookstore, I pass Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and am reminded of a specific anecdote he shared. Kalanithi, …
Opioid receptors in brain affect reaction to another person’s pain
Watching someone else suffering from pain is distressing. What mechanisms cause that distress? And why do some of us experience it more strongly than others? A …
New video shows kids how to manage pain from minor medical procedures
Pediatricians want children to feel comfortable in their hospital beds, but it can be really hard for kids when people keep poking and prodding them. …
On discovery, tenacity and love: How a mom became a rare disease advocate
What do you do when your infant girl is diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease? How would you process the words "There's nothing you …