Informed consent, the time-consuming process for obtaining permission to conduct health-care research on a person, was developed long before computers, the Internet and smartphones. Last …
Category: Data Sciences
All data – big and small – informs large-scale neuroscience project
The thought of gaining access to data from thousands of brains would make most neuroscientists salivate. But now, a team of Stanford and Oxford researchers is …
Build it (an easy way to join research studies) and the volunteers will come
Just nine days after the launch of Stanford Medicine’s MyHeart Counts iPhone app, 27,836 people have consented to participate in this research study on cardiovascular health. “To …
Harnessing mobile health technologies to transform human health
An estimated seven in ten U.S. adults say they track at least one health indicator, and 21 percent of this group use some form of …
Caribbean skeletons hold slave trade secrets
I was excited yesterday to see the Los Angeles Times cover a really neat story out of the laboratory of geneticist Carlos Bustamante, PhD. He …
The benefit of mathematical models in medicine
Theoretical modeling sounds like it has, at best, a distant connection to the day-to-day concerns of medical professionals who care for or research the needs …
Stanford hosts inaugural Childx conference this spring
Registration is now open for the first ever Childx conference, a TED-style conference focused on inspiring innovation in pediatric and maternal health. The conference will …
Fly through the inside of a mouse lung
Take a 50-second ride through the inside of an adult mouse lung in this video created by Rex Moats, PhD, scientific director at Children's Hospital …
Transparency in clinical trials: The importance of getting the whole picture
Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association ran a Viewpoint article from Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health and Kathy Hudson, …
Big data used to help identify patients at risk of deadly high-cholesterol disorder
Familial hypercholesterolemia is not exactly a catchy name. But Stanford cardiologist Josh Knowles, MD, is determined to make it easier to remember. This little known, …
Examining the potential of big data to transform health care
Updated 1-6-15: The piece also aired this week on NPR's All Things Considered. *** 9-29-14: Back in 2011, rheumatologist Jennifer Frankovich, MD, and colleagues at …
Registration for Big Data in Biomedicine conference now open
Last spring, in a blog post on a study from Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, noted that …
Male infertility can be warning of hypertension, Stanford study finds
A study of more than 9,000 men with fertility problems links poor semen quality to a higher chance of having hypertension and other health conditions. The …
A new way of reaching women who need mammograms
I've taken cancer screenings for granted since I'm one of those fortunate enough to have health insurance, and it didn't occur to me that many …
Big data approach identifies new stent drug that could help prevent heart attacks
Ziad Ali, MD, PhD, was a cardiovascular fellow at Stanford with a rather unique skill when a 6-year study published today online in The Journal …
Using supercomputers to spot drug reactions
Remember the drugs Avandia and Vioxx? Avandia, an anti-diabetic drug released in 1999, worked wonderfully against diabetes. But it was also shown to increase users' …