Harvard Medical School recently released an iPhone application designed to educate its users about the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Here's the description from iTunes: The Swine …
Category: Diseases + conditions
How the flu virus invades your body
This is an absolutely fascinating NPR video that shows how a virus invades your body. According to the NPR story, scientific animation outfit XVIVO produced …
Dismissing young patients if parents refuse to vaccinate them
Parents take note: pediatricians may legally deny care to your children if you refuse to vaccinate them. As the anti-vaccination movement increases, some doctors are …
Autism proceedings: End of Story
Advocacy groups can play a vital role in advancing treatment of a disease, but a small but vocal group of parents of children with autism …
Battling PTSD
As Krista points out, Austin, Texas saw a temporary bump in its population of science writers during the past few days. Being a newly minted …
Wired tackles the vaccine controversy
This week in Wired magazine, Amy Wallace attempts to inject some science into the controversy over vaccines and autism. She also gives her readers a …
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 …
Learning about lupus
Like more than 14 million other Americans, I have an autoimmune disease - and I'm always interested in hearing what scientists uncover about these mysterious …
Rush to judgment regarding the state of U.S. health care?
"The U.S. health care system, although it's the costliest in the world, doesn't even deliver the goods when it comes to delivering health." That's the …
The Atlantic questions H1N1 vaccination
A new story in The Atlantic on influenza vaccination is sure to raise the ire of the public health officials now encouraging everyone and their …
Living 'patch' mends broken hearts
Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a living patch that one day could be implanted into patients with heart disease to repair damaged tissue. During …
Skepticism and questions about AIDS vaccine trial
Yesterday I attended a fundraiser in Palo Alto for the Rotary's Child AIDS Project, where some national leaders in the AIDS fight expressed skepticism about …
Veterans & families: Free mental health services
Stanford Hospital & Clinics has launched a program that offers free mental health services to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their families. Details are …
Depression in pregnancy: To treat or not to treat?
As a mom of two who experienced one very bad bout of pre-baby "blues," I'm extremely sympathetic to pregnant women who suffer from depression. Deciding …
Is today's autism the same as yesterday's?
A flurry of stories being posted today, such as these by USA Today and the Associated Press, lay out the puzzle posed by new findings …
Reports of influenza at colleges drop for first time
The number of cases of influenza-like illness reported on college campuses dropped 19% the week of Sept. 19-25. President of the American College Health Association …