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Free, one-minute HIV testing…while you shop for clothes?
Perhaps you're familiar with cafe-laundromats or sushi restaurants with tap dancing. But did you ever visit a second-hand clothing and furniture store to take care of …
Medicine 2.0 organizers offer a need-based discount for ePatients
The organizers of the Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford have just announced a scholarship program offering ePatients significant discounts off the conference registration fees. Interested …
Not such a bad mutation
The New York Times is reporting that UCSF scientists have identified a tie between a genetic mutation and the need for less sleep. The research …
New process helps patients make decision on IVF embryo donation
Imagine you're a patient who has undergone in vitro fertilization and now has leftover embryos. Should you store them, dispose them, or donate the embryos …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Mar. 14
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: A beautiful blood clot: A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a blood clot. The image comes …
Stanford Medicine’s community open house happening on May 16
Mark your calendar for Health Matters, Stanford Medicine's community open house, being held this year on Saturday, May 16. There will be wellness dogs and …
Stanford research powerhouse lures kids with squished stawberries, solid science
As I found out, you don't have to be a kid to enjoy Kid's Day at Clark. Stanford's Clark Center is home to Bio-X, a …
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 …
Stanford preventive-medicine expert: Lay off the meat, get out the sneaks
John Farquhar, MD, is a pioneer in the field of preventive medicine, having founded the Stanford Prevention Research Center and done extensive research on cardovascular …
Registration for Big Data in Biomedicine conference now open
Last spring, in a blog post on a study from Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, noted that …
In Stanford/Gladstone study, yeast genetics further ALS research
A tiny one-celled organism may help scientists devise new treatments for Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS. The researchers, from Stanford and the Gladstone Institutes, reported their …
U.S. Chief Technology Officer kicks off Big Data in Biomedicine
This morning, the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicked off at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. The School of Medicine's …
Scrubs: Mass transit for bacteria?
Scrubs and white coats are once again being examined in an effort to reduce the spread of pathogens. Findings published in this month's issue of …
Examining health-care providers' perceptions of health games
Over at MobiHealthNews, there's a thoughtful discussion about the road ahead for health games, which include a range of applications and devices that leverage social-gaming …
High-tech mouthpieces used to advance medical understanding of concussions in football
As my colleague mentioned earlier today, the problem of concussions among football players is a very real one. To learn more about the issue, Dan …