This weekend, more than 1,500 patients, family members and friends walked or ran the Race Against Pulmonary Hypertension at Stanford. The 5K race, one of the largest and longest-running …
Category: Chronic disease
Innovative Stanford clinic to support chronic care patients
In a New Yorker article called "The Hot Spotters," Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, describes a 560-pound man in Camden, New Jersey, who suffers from …
Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge voting ends Thursday
Among the five semi-finalists in the Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge is a web-based tool created by Nigam Shah, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine …
How to cope with an "invisible illness"
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one in two Americans suffers from at least one chronic disease that affects their daily …
Community-based workshops help patients manage chronic illness
Living with a chronic illness can be a hassle at best. And at its worst, chronic disease can leave patients feeling powerless and depressed as …
Polypills could improve drug compliance, preventative medicine
A peer-reviewed article by NYU medical student Jonathan Levanthal over at Clinical Correlations makes a convincing argument for polypills - that is, a combination pill that …
Mobile phone app helps manage diabetes
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that a mobile phone app can help patients manage their Type 2 diabetes. Their study, …
Potentially lethal clotting linked to blood pressure drop during dialysis
For kidney patients, dialysis can be a life-extending procedure, but the process is not without its issues. About 25% of these patients experience a sudden drop in blood pressure …
Stanford filmmakers document life with a rare disease
On Wednesday, Stanford will host a free screening of a new documentary by filmmakers Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, director of the Program of Bioethics and Film, …
Discovery about why sunburns hurt may blaze trail for future pain treatments
A paper published today in Science Translational Medicine revealing the molecules that make sunburns hurt may provide insight into potential treatments for chronic pain. In …
Deciphering the puzzle of chronic fatigue syndrome
Millions of people worldwide suffer from a mysterious and often debilitating condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) that causes them to feel so tired …
Future treatments for diabetic neuropathy may focus on supporting cell regeneration
A recent John Hopkins study indicating new potential treatments for diabetic neuropathy is encouraging given that neuropathy can be treated by measures as extreme as amputation of affected …
New Stanford center to address inefficient health care delivery
Stanford is creating the Clinical Excellence Research Center, which aims to train the next generation of health-care innovators to develop new ways to lower the …
Diabetes prevention program trains youth in chronic disease self-management
As mentioned earlier this week, physicians at the Stanford Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine are working to reduce diabetes rates in the …
Rules for living with a chronic illness
I missed this earlier in the month, but a recent KevinMD column links to a nice list of ways to live well with a chronic …
Stanford Diabetes Coaches Class selected as 2011 Healthy Living Innovation Awards finalist
A Stanford-developed program aimed at empowering teens to help curb the growing problem of diabetes in the United States has been selected as a finalist …