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Category: Patient Care
Medicine X offering free webcast of the conference's plenary proceedings
Exciting news from Larry Chu, MD, the executive director of Stanford Medicine X: Anyone unable to attend the conference will be able to participate virtually …
Countdown to Medicine X: Turning to emerging technologies to relieve stress, anxiety and PTSD
In anticipation of the inaugural Stanford Medicine X conference this Sept. 28-30, I'll be highlighting some of the research being presented during the three-day event. …
Doctors: Please have "ears that hear"
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Medicine X video discusses technology and participatory medicine
This fifth film from Stanford Medicine X features Roni Zeiger, MD, co-founder of Impatient Science. In the video, Zeiger, who is also the former chief …
Stanford Medicine X releases book highlighting ePatients
This morning Larry Chu, MD, and his team at the Stanford AIM Lab released its first eBook, which shares the stories of the 35 ePatient …
Zebras with different stripes: One patient's story
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
A story of a burst appendix and its owner who lived
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller, right? Common Health blog begins a narrative post on one woman's burst-appendix survival with …
Image of the Week: Regina Holliday’s Medicine X (redux)
Earlier this year, my colleague Marissa Fessenden wrote about this painting, "Stanford Medicine X," by artist and patient advocate Regina Holliday. But, as it turned …
Family ties: One sister saves another with live liver donation
Organ transplantation is never simple, particularly when the procedure involves a living donor, and even more so when the transplant is being done on the liver. …
Expert by experience: Living with, and teaching about, short bowel syndrome
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
PeerJ open access publishing platform launches today
There's a nice profile of PeerJ, a new open access platform for the life sciences that launched today, on Reciprocal Space: It is a fascinating …
VA program uses iPads to coordinate care among physicians, patients and caregivers
A new pilot project launched by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs aims to test the benefits of using mobile technology to help physicians, patients …
Image of the Week: Regina Holliday's Medicine X
In this richly-colored painting, artist and patient-rights activist Regina Holliday depicts central themes of the upcoming Stanford Medicine X conference. On the artist's blog she explains: In the …
The Beast cut in on my song: Living with coronary microvascular dysfunction
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
The importance of research advocacy: Two cancer survivors share their thoughts
Disease activists come in all shapes, sizes... and temperaments. There are genial fund-raising walkers, chained-to-the-courthouse protestors and every passion in between. The Spring 2012 edition …