We've all heard the saying "his eyes are bigger than his stomach" when a child overloads a plate of food at a picnic or smiled at …
Month: August 2017
New blood cancer treatment gets FDA approval
More than 20 years ago, for a high school science project, I gave a presentation to my biology class on gene therapy. To me, the …
Lucy Kalanithi speaks about medicine, empathy, and meaning with Dean Lloyd Minor
What advice would Stanford physician Lucy Kalanithi, MD, give to students beginning their medical journey? That was one of the questions that Dean Lloyd Minor, …
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Amplifying signals to detect cancer early
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features MD-PhD student Amin Aalipour, who is interested in disease detection.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features MD-PhD student Amin Aalipour, who is interested in disease detection.
Working to reverse blindness in the Himalayas and beyond
The opening sentences alone grab you: "In the remote village where Geoff Tabin, MD, lived while working at a Nepalese hospital in the late 1980s, blindness …
A big welcome for Stanford med students
Under a sunny blue sky, nearly 100 doctors-to-be, clad in their recently procured white coats, waited in line to receive the ultimate symbol of their …
Average U.S. newborn’s dad is getting older (as is mom) — and it matters
The average age of a newborn's dad has crept steadily upwards in the United States, from 27.4 years old in 1972 to 30.9 in 2015. …
Countdown to Medicine X: Advancing social causes in the face of political adversity
Ai-jen Poo has reason to feel discouraged. Causes she has doggedly championed — basic labor protections for nannies, housekeepers and home health workers and, more …
Stem cell clinic involved in blinding cases censured by FDA
Helping share the news earlier this year about three women who had been blinded by a fraudulent stem cell procedure was sobering and somewhat surprising for …
Artificial intelligence can help predict who will develop dementia, a new study finds
If you could find out that you were likely to develop Alzheimer's, would you want to know? Researchers from McGill University argue that patients and …
Gamers to build on/off switches for CRISPR
This week, Stanford launches a new version of Eterna, an online computer game that allows thousands of players to design useful molecules. The game event, …
Stanford researchers refine bacterial signature associated with premature birth
Two years ago, a Stanford team discovered that women who deliver their babies prematurely have a different community of vaginal bacteria during pregnancy than women …
Participants wanted for the Move More, Sit Less, seven-day challenge
Sometimes it's hard to get motivated to move. "It's my day off," you tell yourself, "besides, how much good could 30 or even 60 minutes …
Gaps exist in California hospital care for babies from different ethnicities
Across California, the racial and ethnic backgrounds of tiny infants are influencing the quality of medical care they receive in hospitals' neonatal intensive care units, …
Career advice for kids from Stanford Medicine alumna and astronaut Kate Rubins
Getting a PhD in cancer biology may not seem like a step towards becoming an astronaut, but for Stanford Medicine alumna Kate Rubins, PhD, a NASA …
Talking love, loss and making choices with novelist Joyce Maynard
I discovered novelist Joyce Maynard's new memoir, The Best of Us, through -- how else? -- social media. Earlier in the summer a mutual friend …