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Snails can travel far, spreading disease, researchers find

...birds or other animals. The authors hope that an improved understanding of how and where these snails migrate will help others design better control measures to limit their movement and...

...birds or other animals. The authors hope that an improved understanding of how and where these snails migrate will help others design better control measures to limit their movement and...

health++ hackathon aimed for affordability, innovation

...design new technology for nurses in need, Stanford doctors use biodesign training to spark health innovation in Brazil and Biodesign trip highlights an innovative approach to Japan’s aging crisis  ...

...design new technology for nurses in need, Stanford doctors use biodesign training to spark health innovation in Brazil and Biodesign trip highlights an innovative approach to Japan’s aging crisis  ...

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Conflict and compromise: How clinicians can improve end-of-life conversations

...As King once said, "Stop trying to convince, and start understanding." Previously: Flipping roles and using design-thinking principles to improve communication, End-of-life discussions the focus of PBS piece, Stanford doctor...

...As King once said, "Stop trying to convince, and start understanding." Previously: Flipping roles and using design-thinking principles to improve communication, End-of-life discussions the focus of PBS piece, Stanford doctor...

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Flipping roles and using design-thinking principles to improve communication

...to "Get visual. Get tangible." One of the hallmarks of design thinking is placing the user (a patient for our session) at the center of design and intention. The design...

...to "Get visual. Get tangible." One of the hallmarks of design thinking is placing the user (a patient for our session) at the center of design and intention. The design...

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Design thinking is key to preparing doctors and improving health care, Medicine X speakers say

...on the "Design thinking inside out" panel at Medicine X Sunday morning, are working to change the system by integrating design thinking into medical school training and patient care. Together,...

...on the "Design thinking inside out" panel at Medicine X Sunday morning, are working to change the system by integrating design thinking into medical school training and patient care. Together,...

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Preventing sexual assault in Kenyan girls — Stanford researchers make inroads

...they could learn as much as possible from the process by thinking carefully in how we designed the experiment," said lead study author Michael Baiocchi, PhD. Baiocchi, Sarnquist and their...

...they could learn as much as possible from the process by thinking carefully in how we designed the experiment," said lead study author Michael Baiocchi, PhD. Baiocchi, Sarnquist and their...

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American India Foundation Symposium on maternal and newborn health to be held at Stanford

...the well-known author and Stanford professor of medicine; Shabana Azmi, an activist and actress; a talk from a sahiya, or village health care worker, a presentation on design thinking and...

...the well-known author and Stanford professor of medicine; Shabana Azmi, an activist and actress; a talk from a sahiya, or village health care worker, a presentation on design thinking and...

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Found in translation – Kyoto style

...and talked. As you'll see, the tea house turned out to be the perfect place to talk about translational research. Sarata-san talked about design thinking and "smile value," which are...

...and talked. As you'll see, the tea house turned out to be the perfect place to talk about translational research. Sarata-san talked about design thinking and "smile value," which are...

Stanford doctors use biodesign training to spark health innovation in Brazil

...biodesign bootcamp? The doctors, Robson Capasso, MD, Robert Chang, MD, and Eric Sokol, MD are all BFFs – Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellows. The BFF program trains Stanford medicine and engineering...

...biodesign bootcamp? The doctors, Robson Capasso, MD, Robert Chang, MD, and Eric Sokol, MD are all BFFs – Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellows. The BFF program trains Stanford medicine and engineering...

The secret sauce for drug development success: Stanford’s Daria Mochly-Rosen at TEDMED

“I want you to imagine that you’re recovering from a heart attack. You’re at home thinking about the large scar on your heart,” said Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD, a professor of...

“I want you to imagine that you’re recovering from a heart attack. You’re at home thinking about the large scar on your heart,” said Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD, a professor of...

Biodesign trip highlights an innovative approach to Japan’s aging crisis

...lent a new urgency to Japan Biodesign, the partnership between Stanford Biodesign; Osaka, Tokyo and Tohoku Universities; and the Japan Federation of Medical Devices. The partnership was established in 2015...

...lent a new urgency to Japan Biodesign, the partnership between Stanford Biodesign; Osaka, Tokyo and Tohoku Universities; and the Japan Federation of Medical Devices. The partnership was established in 2015...

From art to surgery: Stanford Medicine alumna reconstructs new ears for children

...same skill set that I was used to working in: design, thinking three-dimensionally and visualizing symmetry. It was very much like sculpture. Years later in medical school, I saw my...

...same skill set that I was used to working in: design, thinking three-dimensionally and visualizing symmetry. It was very much like sculpture. Years later in medical school, I saw my...

A faster way to find drugs to target some of the body’s key catalysts

For more than a decade, some medical researchers have been eyeing an enzyme that ratchets up damage to the heart during a heart attack. They’ve been thinking how nice it...

For more than a decade, some medical researchers have been eyeing an enzyme that ratchets up damage to the heart during a heart attack. They’ve been thinking how nice it...

What color is your cloud? Study finds large variability in resident workloads

...it remains a big question mark especially for program directors. Thinking through the study’s implications from a program director’s point of view was the main role of the third author,...

...it remains a big question mark especially for program directors. Thinking through the study’s implications from a program director’s point of view was the main role of the third author,...

Mark your calendars — Medicine X Week is Sept. 12-18

...IDEO Design Challenge: a daylong dive into design thinking for health care to be held in partnership with IDEO, a global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to...

...IDEO Design Challenge: a daylong dive into design thinking for health care to be held in partnership with IDEO, a global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to...

Training creativity: To obtain a zany brain, don’t strain it. Unchain it.

...on creative thinking -- spontaneous improvisation -- not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity characterized by -- are...

...on creative thinking -- spontaneous improvisation -- not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity characterized by -- are...

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