You may be familiar with the science rappers at Stanford from their 2009 Internet hit "Regulatin' Genes." Now the dynamic rap duo are back with …
Category: Education
Stanford Medicine magazine focuses on kids' health
It's an unpleasant fact of life for patients and their doctors: Sometimes healing hurts. But does it have to? The spring issue of Stanford Medicine …
Image of the Week: neural stem cells
This striking image was posted on the GE Healthcare Flickr photo stream under a Creative Commons license, apparently as part of a competition it organizes. …
Stanford Mini Med School lecture videos posted
This fall, Stanford's Continuing Studies program launched a new offering: Stanford Mini Med School, featuring distinguished faculty, scientists and physicians from the university's School of …
Image of the Week: 3D radiology image of the lung
This image of a lung that was made in Stanford's Radiology 3D Imaging Laboratory. Computed tomography was used to scan the side of the lungs …
Health care in Haiti before the earthquake: A look back at Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Even before last month's earthquake, providing medical care in Haiti was a struggle. A 2002 Stanford Medicine magazine article describes the scene back then in …
CDC offers lots of tweeting advice
This afternoon, Shots' Scott Hensley pokes a bit of (good-natured) fun at the CDC's "Social Media Guidelines and Best Practices" (link to PDF) document. Yes, …
Image of the week: Mouse embryonic stem cells
This is a striking color-enhanced microscopic image of mouse embryonic stem cells growing on a bed of silicon nanotubes. It was made in the lab …
Reports from Stanford medical team in Haiti
UPDATE JAN. 28, 2010: Paul Auerbach, MD, and Robert Norris, MD, have e-mailed a brief description of the medical and cultural experiences the Stanford team …
Group blogs: an emerging trend in medical social media?
Ves Dimov, MD, who runs Clinical Cases and Images, has identified five emerging trends in medically-focused social media. Among the five: Independent solo medical bloggers …
Keeping stem cells in check
Raise your hand if you've ever rolled your eyes at well-meaning advice from a parent or grandparent--and then went on to do what they'd suggested. …
Haitian med student worries, makes plans to aid country
Yesterday, my colleague Ruthann Richter met with Johan Guillaume, a first-year Stanford medical student who was born in Haiti. He shared with Ruthann his concerns …
Stanford sends medical team to Haiti
A team of emergency medicine physicians and nurses from Stanford departed for Haiti early this morning to aid with relief efforts. The medical team will …
Stanford professor Hank Greely talks about health care and research in 2010
As 2010 gets underway, there remains a number of unanswered questions about the state of health care and biomedical research in the U.S. It is …
Finally, a way to fix broken enzymes
I've been interested in Daria Mochly-Rosen's research into a mutation that messes up alcohol processing for personal reasons. If I imbibe more than a sip …
Stanford develops new industry-funded model for continuing education of physicians
A story in this morning's New York Times detailed plans by the Stanford University School of Medicine to design and implement a new model for …