From future stem cell researchers to budding international health experts, a crowd of aspiring physicians and scientists - about 45 Stanford MD and MD/PhD students - …
Author: Tracie White
Researchers call for "democratization" of clinical trials data
In response to recent questioning of the integrity of the dissemination of results in biomedical literature, three medical researchers from Stanford and Duke University are pointing …
Finding hope on the Rosebud Indian Reservation
Statistics often don’t tell the whole story. In the case of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where I traveled last month to write …
Exploring the cost-effectiveness of statin use among kidney patients
Heart disease is the primary cause of death for the more than 20 million people in the United States with chronic kidney disease (CKD). For …
Trial results promising for new anti-clotting drug
Research published online yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine shows a novel anti-clotting drug to be superior at preventing blood clots during coronary …
Teaching surgeons new skills for medical missions
Sherry Wren, MD, a general surgeon at Stanford, has volunteered multiple times for humanitarian missions in Africa with Doctors Without Borders. There, she has treated …
Funding basic science leads to clinical discoveries, eventually
Updated 6.15.13: A Stanford Medicine article further describes the vismodegib research. *** When I first interviewed Brian Kobilka, MD, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize …
More progress in the quest for a "painometer"
A new method of using brain scans to determine whether a patient has chronic lower back pain proved successful 76 percent of the time in …
New leaders in heart medicine at Stanford
Two leaders in the battle against the number one killer in the United States - heart disease -have been appointed co-directors of the Stanford Cardiovascular …
Study points to inflammation as cause of plaque buildup in heart vessels
New research into the causes of heart disease lends credence to the theory that inflammation, seen in plaque buildup in heart vessels, is a cause …
Fruit flies in space! Researchers hope to learn more about the heart through space-station experiment
The new frontier in heart research is sending fruit flies into space to study the effects of weightlessness on their teeny tiny hearts. Spaceflight, apparently, …
Elephants chat a bit before departing water hole, new Stanford research shows
Field biologist Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, PhD, has an up-close-and-personal relationship with elephants living in the wilds of Africa. She has spent decades of summers hunkered down in …
No imposters here: Stanford grad students reassured as they begin school
It may be hard to believe, but even some of the most accomplished graduate students struggle at times with feelings of inadequacy. In an Inside …
Guidewire technology improves heart patient care
For patients with coronary artery disease who are interested in being proactive in their own health care, I’ve written a series of stories on published …
Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination against transgender patients
Obtaining appropriate health care - including adequate medical insurance coverage - has often proved challenging for patients who may identify with one gender, yet still …
Stanford researcher fights obesity out on the farm
A Stanford nutrition researcher is spending time outside the lab and in the agricultural fields to promote something he calls "stealth nutrition" - making it …