I guess it has something to do with my jet lag (over the weekend I returned from Europe via a 14-hour plane ride from Rome) …
Author: Paul Costello
Yea or nay on California's prop to legalize weed?
Personally, I've been wavering on how I'll vote in November on the California proposition that legalizes marijuana. I hear the proponents of Proposition 19 with …
Beware: Stem cell clinics offering "miracle" cures
I watched my father physically disintegrate from Parkinson's disease. It was profoundly sad to see this once vibrant man diminish to a helpless infant-like state. …
Hands on: Abraham Verghese teaches bedside skills
Stanford's Abraham Verghese, MD, is trying to revive a vanishing art: the hands-on bedside exam. In this 1:2:1 podcast, he tells me that technology and …
David Blumenthal: "You'll get better care" with electronic health records
Why has it taken the health-care system so long to catch up with the rest of the business world in using technology to improve the …
Pro-eating disorders on the web? That doesn't make sense, does it?
I really couldn't imagine it: Web sites that promote eating disorders. Yet, they proliferate on the Internet. Researchers who conducted the first large-scale analysis of …
Anna Deavere Smith to perform at Medical Grand Rounds
Anna Deavere Smith is no doctor but she plays hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus on the hit Showtime series, "Nurse Jackie." Next Wednesday, Smith will be …
You say you want a revolution
To think that within the foreseeable future (how soon is surely a key question) the possibility of tapping the human genome to unlock the door …
A new era in education at Stanford's medical school
To hear Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the medical school, wax eloquently about it, you realize that the newLi Ka Shing Center (LKSC) at Stanford’s …
Learn something from Cuba? No way!
My mother was a New Deal Democrat. She grew up in the Depression and always revered Franklin D. Roosevelt for rebuilding the nation after its …
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink: the final hours at New Orleans Memorial
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink is one of Stanford’s own. She received her MD and PhD in neuroscience from the School of Medicine. When I read …
Will Henrietta Lacks now get her due?
Update 04/23/10: Last night Rebecca Skloot sent a tweet to @sumedicine about our post: Henrietta's case is different in many ways, but the research done …
Stanford researcher talks about TB project in North Korea
Stanford researcher Sharon Perry PhD, an infectious disease specialist, has been working in North Korea with a team of American health specialists to develop the …
Stanford researcher cautions against widespread use of statins
Last year, I recorded a 1:2:1 podcast with Mark Hlatky, MD, a Stanford professor of health research and policy, about the preventive use of cholesterol-lowering …
Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks lives on and on
It is one of the most exciting books of 2010. Just wait for the award season to come around and watch The Immortal Life of …
Special court says no link between autism and vaccines
A federal "vaccines court" constitituted to hear legal challenges filed by more than 5,300 parents who claimed that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (commonly known as the …