Marya Zilberberg, MD, wonders on KevinMD about how efficient medicine should be: ...I worry that in our traditional American single-minded zeal we will go overboard …
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Investigating the role of inflammation in pulmonary hypertension: An update
Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post that has received more comments and requests for updates than any other story I’ve written. The piece highlighted …
Ommmmm… Mindfulness therapy appears to help prevent depression relapse
The mind is a powerful thing. And it turns out it may also be therapeutic. New research, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, has …
Diagnosis: Electronic Medical Record myopia
A few years ago I had an appointment with a doctor who got so deeply absorbed in reading and updating my electronic medical record, there …
Deceased athletes' brains reveal the effects of head injuries
Much has been in the news today about the harmful effects of head injuries among professional football players. If you're at all interested in the …
FDA launches medical device transparency site
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently launched a Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Web site as part of its initiative to …
"Less is more”: Eating wisely, with delight, during the holidays
Some multi-culture families celebrate their heritage by adding more holidays, writes Maya Adam, MD, a Stanford lecturer who operates the nonprofit Just Cook for Kids. …
Easing the burden of choice: A Medicine X workshop on shared decision making
Imagine being told you have a 50-50 chance of getting the same irreparable disease that distressed and deteriorated your father for the last few years …
Mummyblogging, round two
Last week, I posted a few photos of a Stanford effort to image the mummy of a 2,500-year-old priest. For those of you who like …
Denialism
OK. So I beat Jon Stewart to an interview with Michael Specter. If you're interested in considering how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, you should …
Improving communication between doctors and patients
I was speaking recently with a friend who, concerned about his father's health, accompanied his dad to the doctor's office. The doctor asked his dad …
Grand Roundup: Top posts of May
The five most-read stories this month on Scope were: Eating for good blood: Tips for boosting iron levels and hemoglobin: This entry from the Stanford Blood …
Why scientific research is often a strange combination of secrecy and openness
As previously discussed on Scope, scientists at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz have launched a project to sequence the genome of the "Albino Redwood," an …
Brain cell spheres offer new tool to study disease
Earlier this year my colleague reported on some pretty neat work from the labs of psychiatrist Sergiu Pasca, MD, and neurobiologist Ben Barres, MD, PhD. Researchers there figured …
Countdown to Medicine X: Advancing social causes in the face of political adversity
Ai-jen Poo has reason to feel discouraged. Causes she has doggedly championed — basic labor protections for nannies, housekeepers and home health workers and, more …