Hitting the gym or going for a jog could alleviate fatigue, depressive symptoms and other mental health issues among chronically ill patients, according to new …
Category: Diseases + conditions
How the C3N project is working to rewrite the medical script and empower patients
Over on the Medicine X blog, Julia James has written a great piece on the Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N), a five-year project aimed at …
Diabetes care lacking in developing countries
It's well-established that diabetes - due, in part, to our obesity problem - is on the rise in the United States. But what you may …
New thinking about osteoarthritis, older people's nemesis
Osteoarthritis is easily the most common joint disease in the United States and in the world. Stanford immunologist and rheumatologist Bill Robinson, MD, PhD, says it's …
How light exercise can help prevent arthritis from getting worse
As we've previously written on Scope, a growing body of evidence shows exercise can ease the pain, stiffness and swelling of the joints associated with …
HHS offers $1B for health care innovations – What would MacGyver do?
With rising health care costs threatening to implode the U.S. economy if we don’t act quickly, the Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday …
Racing to raise awareness of pulmonary hypertension
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 …
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 …