This week's image is a plate, titled "Bones of the Head," from Intermediate anatomy, physiology and hygiene. The book was written by Calvin Cutter and …
Author: John Stafford
Image of the Week: Lithograph of a frozen anatomical section
This is a chromolithograph from the book Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas : nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern by Wilhelm Braune. According to the U.S. National Library of …
Image of the Week: Anatomical study
This is an anatomical study made by Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) in 1550. The study was done in black chalk on paper and is kept at …
Firdaus Dhabhar discusses the positive effects of stress
In this recent talk from TED@Vancouver, Firdaus Dhabhar, PhD, director of research at the Stanford Center on Stress & Health, discusses the positive effects of …
Cigarettes and chronographs: How tobacco industry marketing targeted racing enthusiasts
Hot on the heels of reading about the tobacco industry's connection to the Olympics, I've just come across a post on Hodinkee (a great watch …
How outsourcing might provide solutions to replication failure in research
Slate's Carl Zimmer has a great piece today about replication failure in science and is implications when human health is at issue. He writes: C. …
Image of the Week: Mystery photo
This is another unidentified image I came across while scanning the Stanford Medicine History Center Flickr photo stream. I like the composition - it feels …
Medicine X video discusses technology and participatory medicine
This fifth film from Stanford Medicine X features Roni Zeiger, MD, co-founder of Impatient Science. In the video, Zeiger, who is also the former chief …
Image of the Week: Culture
This week's image is a plate from Medical Bacteriology, published in 1917 by John Roddy, MD. The caption underneath the plate illustration offers more detail. …
Stanford Medicine X releases book highlighting ePatients
This morning Larry Chu, MD, and his team at the Stanford AIM Lab released its first eBook, which shares the stories of the 35 ePatient …
Video: Reusable grocery bags can harbor bacteria
Here's something utterly nauseating I hadn't before considered: Apparently reusable grocery bags can harbor bacteria. Meat products, according to this Cleveland Clinic video, are a …
Image of the Week: Patrick
The International AIDS Conference opens today in Washington, D.C. My colleague, Ruthann Richter, is attending the conference and will be writing about her experiences there. …
Image of the Week: Anomalies of the subclavian and carotid arteries
This is a cropped section of a plate from The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body with its Application to Pathology and Operative …
SCOTUSblog explains how CNN and Fox News got the Affordable Care Act decision wrong
I missed this over the weekend, but I just read and love Tom Goldstein's minute-by-minute account of how the media covered the U.S. Supreme Court's …
Arizona researchers develop robotic legs that mimic the human gait
I can't believe I missed this last week: Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a pair of robotic legs that they claim offer …
Image of the Week: Regina Holliday’s Medicine X (redux)
Earlier this year, my colleague Marissa Fessenden wrote about this painting, "Stanford Medicine X," by artist and patient advocate Regina Holliday. But, as it turned …