At the Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE conference, patient innovators describe ways they can use their expertise to help others.
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Living organ donation: ‘What about the donors?’ at Medicine X | CHANGE
Away from the headlines about organ donation, living donors often encounter challenges that get overlooked, like lost wages and insurance battles.
COPD takes center stage at Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE
Grace Anne Dorney Koppel and Ted Koppel aim to raise awareness and funding for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE event.
Registration is now open for Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE
Registration is now open for Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE — the event will take place at Stanford Medicine September 20-22.
A lesson for future doctors: Listen to and learn from your patients
Stanford Medicine X patient advocate Hugo Campos worked with high school and pre-med students recently to help them learn how to listen carefully to patients.
Balancing online privacy and connection at Stanford Medicine X | Ed
Researchers and ePatients at Stanford Medicine X | Ed talk about the benefits and risks of discussing personal health issues online.
Data and design thinking to shape the future of medicine, Stanford Medicine X | ED speakers say
Dean Lloyd Minor from Stanford and Bon Ku from Thomas Jefferson University weigh in on forces transforming medical care.
The best way to prepare for a career in medicine and the importance of curiosity at Medicine X | ED
Medical students and physicians can learn important lessons from both landscape architecture and journalism, Stanford Medicine X | ED speakers explained.
A call to action at day one of Stanford Medicine X | ED
Executive Director Larry Chu and keynote speaker Victor Montori welcome attendees to day one of Stanford Medicine X | ED.
Stanford Medicine X | ED returns to the stage this weekend
Stanford Medicine X | ED, the two-day conference that brings together patients, researchers, physicians and students to improve medical education, returns this weekend.
Local knowledge key to building healthier communities
Your zip code is just a number meant to guide mail delivery, but studies show that it predicts your lifespan better than your genetic code. …
Using design thinking to cope with chronic illness
Design thinking may be able to help us disentangle one of the most perplexing complications in the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic disease: human …
“This shouldn’t be the case in 2017”: A call for more research on transgender health
There's a pressing need for more research into transgender health issues. That was the argument eloquently laid out at Stanford Medicine X talk this weekend by ePatient Charlie Blotner. As …
Boosting physician wellness: Lessons from Stanford at Medicine X
In a small, informal workshop at Stanford Medicine X on Sunday afternoon, a group of medical students, doctors and others met to discuss one of …
Grief in the time of social media
When Alexis Roberts Keiner's 9-week-old son died unexpectedly at day care in 2012, “we had to choose very quickly what kind of bereaved family we …
Now, that’s dogged research: Medicine X speaker shares a story of possibility
When Doug Lindsay, a 21-year-old college student, first began to feel sick, he received a diagnosis of mononucleosis and was told to stay home and …