This week programmers from across the country will convene in Washington, D.C., to take part in a code-a-thon hosted by the U.S. Department of Health …
Author: Julia James
Countdown to Medicine X: “Speak up,” urges organizational learning expert
Amy Edmondson, PhD, considers herself lucky. In her life, she's been hospitalized just twice, for relatively straightforward childbirths. But the memories are vivid -- and one, …
A Stanford expert in the science of learning turns his attention to medical education
Dan Schwartz, PhD, found himself unconvinced after a recent visit to his general practitioner. In for a bad wheel, he’d been given a simple diagnosis: …
Medicine X | ED founder Larry Chu on the need to rethink health-care education
Saturday morning marks the start of this year's Medicine X | ED, an event that was born from the popular Medicine X conference and that …
Improving communication in health care: A preview of Med X | ED
A doctor yells out an order in the ER. A nurse wonders if his colleague would be willing to take over his weekend shift. An …
Using digital media storytelling to inspire American Indian youth
In his first two decades, Erik Brodt, MD, got to know two very different worlds. The first: life around Bemidji, Minnesota and the White Earth …
Could trips to the barber be as good for your health as for your hair?
The barbershop has been the subject of some interesting sociological and medical studies over the years. The man or woman that combs your hair and …
Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building to open on the Stanford campus
Stanford might be lovingly referred to as "The Farm," but it's also home to research facilities that are as beautiful as they are high-tech. The …
Untrained marathoners may risk temporary heart damage
After last week's Nike Women's Marathon, my Facebook page was peppered with celebratory status updates from runners. I was impressed, of course, that twenty thousand …
Why do women live longer? One man's best guess
Women live longer than men. Why? The answer is certainly not that they endure less stress, as was once assumed when men went to work …
Image of the week: Bedbug
The news just keeps getting worse on the bedbug front. Above, a digitally-colored scanning electron micrograph of Cimex lectularius shows the insect's six jointed legs …
Chronic disease: Genes matter, but so does environment
We're all familiar with the classic debate: Is it nature or nurture that most influences how our brains tick? Of course, a variation of that …
Image of the week: Your brain on love
Passionate feelings of love activate reward systems in the brain and can block the sensation of pain, according to neuroimaging research published this week by …
Molly Carnes: Gender bias persists in academia
Think women have achieved equal footing in academia? Molly Carnes, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, begs to differ. The cofounder of …
Is sponsorship of health content on the web unethical? Journalism professionals weigh in
Does is strike you as odd that WebMD's breastfeeding page is funded by Gerber Good Start? Or that Babble's equivalent was previously sponsored by Similac? …
Perinatal exposure to DDT byproduct ups risk of obesity
In case you needed another reason to dislike DDT, Spanish researchers have found that a byproduct of the infamous pesticide might be making us fat. …