The first of 15 installments of the pachyderm soap opera from the wilds of Namibia appears in the New York Times' Scientist at Work blog …
Author: Tracie White
Match Day 2012 decides medical students' next steps
Today I was lucky enough to once again join the crowd at one of medical school's most emotional days of the year. Match Day, the …
Stanford paper most downloaded in Circulation Research
I have just learned a recent Stanford study that advances the understanding of the molecular and genetic mechanisms of aneurysm formation in patients with Marfan …
The high cost of pain: Medical school dean testifies on problem to U.S. Senate
Updated 4:15 pm: In his ongoing effort to push for a public health campaign to battle our country's pain epidemic, Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of …
Throat doctors manipulated by Big Tobacco
For half a century beginning in the 1920s, tobacco companies continued a campaign to manipulate throat doctors - primarily with money - into helping calm …
A call to fight chronic-pain epidemic
During my years working as a health writer, I’ve interviewed a wide variety of frustrated - and often depressed - chronic pain sufferers who, after …
Survivors of genocide seek reparations in court
More than 30 years after suffering unspeakable tragedies at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Sophany Bay, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who now …
Teaching medical students how to listen and care
In covering the medical education beat for Inside Stanford Medicine, I have increasingly begun to hear about the need for better training of medical students …
Medical schools neglect LGBT issues
Yesterday on Well, Pauline Chen, MD, recounted the story of a doctor who unknowingly treated a transgender woman. Because of a lack of communication between …
Stanford internship draws diverse medical students
The need for more diversity in the physician population has prompted some concern from faculty at Stanford medical school about difficulties recruiting residents from underrepresented …
Stanford scientists work towards developing a "painometer"
About two years ago, Stanford neurologist Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, was asked by defense lawyers in a workman’s compensation case to serve as an expert …
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered health issues not being taught in medical school
In 2007, four students at Stanford medical school founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Medical Education Research Group with plans of working toward bolstering …
Stanford team writes new recommendations for reading athletes' ECG results
Every time an athlete, who seems to be in the peak of physical health, dies suddenly during competition because of an unknown heart defect, the …
Surgeon and scientific illustrator use art to educate
Many of the great anatomical advancements throughout history were collaborations between anatomists and artists. In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, well, he was both. …
Champion of stem cell research to headline graduation
A researcher who battles cancer in the lab and fights for the rights of stem cell research in the press headlines this year's commencement ceremonies …
Virtual dissection table helps teach human anatomy
In the ongoing search for how best to explore and learn about the anatomy of the human body, Silicon Valley engineers have entered into the …