During research for a story on preventing teen depression to come out in the spring edition of Stanford Medicine, I interviewed a mother of two …
Author: Tracie White
Plastic surgery used to change fingerprints
In a story that draws up Hollywood images of criminal masterminds who keep plastic surgeons on the payroll to alter their appearance, the BBC has …
Heart transplant patient remains an athlete
Joe Matthews, or "English Joe" as he likes to be known, has one of those inspirational medical stories. A heart transplant patient at Stanford Hospital …
Benefits of dialysis for frail elderly debated
USA Today readers debated the topic of the benefits of dialysis treatment for the frail elderly with kidney failure in response to the story "Risks …
Information overload harming patients?
Champion of bed-side medicine, Abraham Verghese, MD, advises his medical students at Stanford to meet their patients first then scour the overwhelming amounts of medical …