After a researcher painstakingly collects the data, analyzes it, sweats over the manuscript that describes the findings, and finds a journal to publish it, a …
Author: Rina Shaikh-Lesko
A look at NIH’s new rules for gender balance in biomedical studies
In May, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, co-authored a Comment piece in Nature, outlining new requirements for biomedical researchers …
“Prehab” routines before cancer surgery help patients bounce back faster
If you’ve ever had surgery, especially an orthopedic one, you’ve probably had rehabilitation therapy. In recent years, orthopedic surgery plans have begun to include a …
Assessing the opioid overdose epidemic
In recent years, doctors and policy-makers have become aware of the dangers of prescription opioid medications like methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone (which is sold as …
Fits like a glove: Stanford researchers develop medical applications for the Cooling Glove
Two years ago we wrote about the Cooling Glove, a device developed by Stanford biologists Craig Heller, PhD, and Dennis Grahn that helps athletes cool …
Exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengue
Every year, more than 200 million people are affected by malaria and 50 to 100 million new dengue infections occur. Now, a group of scientists …
Pioneering cancer nurses guide patients through maze of care
Learning you have cancer is a life-changing diagnosis. Even after the initial shock wears off, the gauntlet of medical care necessary to manage the disease …
Tiny size, big impact: Ultrasound powers miniature medical implant
For years, scientists have been trying to create implantable electronic devices, but challenges related to powering such technologies has limited their success. Enter a prototype developed by Stanford …
Walking and aging: A historical perspective
The evidence that exercise helps stave off mental decline in elderly people has been mounting for several years now, but an article by Wayne Curtis in …
The toll of Alzheimer’s on caretakers
My last grandparent, my paternal grandmother, passed away earlier this year. She lived into her 90s and, like both my maternal grandmother and grandfather, she …
Breaking the light barrier in medical microscopy: More on today's Nobel-winning work
Earlier today, Stanford University's W.E. Moerner, PhD, was one of three scientists to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in super-resolution microscopy. …
Summer’s child: Stanford researchers use season of birth to estimate cancer risk
One of the hardest parts of unraveling childhood cancers is understanding what causes them. In recent years, evidence has been mounting that cancer and many …
The promise and peril of genome sequencing newborns
Even though doctors and researchers have made great strides in caring for patients in the past few decades, there are still many illnesses that are …
The benefits and costs for scientists of communicating with the public
Today’s researchers are under immense pressure to produce scientific results in the form of peer-reviewed journal articles—and do it on tighter and tighter budgets. And …
Treating an infection to prevent a cancer: H. pylori and stomach cancer
The number of newly diagnosed stomach cancer cases in the United States is less than a tenth of the number of prostate cancer cases or …
Healthy gut bacteria help chicken producers avoid antibiotics
If you watch TV, you’ve probably seen actress Jamie Lee Curtis selling Activa, Dannon’s probiotic yogurt - or perhaps you've taken probiotic supplements to help …