...design research. But it is through the day-to-day work of patients like of Salmi, Blotner, and Adam Hayden -- and their work with doctors like Fratkin of Resolution Care, who...
...benefits associated with other types of diversity as well." Although women are most likely to include gender in the design of their research, anyone can learn to incorporate sex and...
...where we don't just learn interesting things from clinical data, but we design, study, and evaluate how to deliver that information back to clinicians and patients." Photo by Ilya Pavlov...
Stanford researchers have created a computer simulation, validated by experimental results, to help design drug-delivery nanoparticles that carry cancer-fighting medicines directly to tumors, while minimizing the potential side-effects on healthy...
...not something she had been trained to do. The experience was eye opening. As Tseng says in the article: Basically I design a molecule using algorithms. We can do fast...
...equation," Wapnir told me. "We thought we needed to streamline this." Melcher and Wapnir reached out to their Stanford Engineering colleague Itai Ashlagi, PhD, who specializes in the design and...
...Wren said, was to design a humanitarian medical response in conflict zones that is capable of averting preventable disability and deaths of civilians by providing modern evidence-based care. “What do...
...from MRIs don't always receive them, pediatric radiologist Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD, explained in a recent story I wrote. The problem? Most MRI equipment is designed for adult-sized bodies and...
...can move. Sketch says it’s time to start figuring it out, so that they can intelligently design tools that will help people who’ve had a stroke. “Ultimately, the nature of...
Of all the objects a 3D printer can churn out — musical instruments, camera lenses, shoes, hinges, doorstops, weapons — one of the coolest might be personalized cardiac catheters. Cardiac...
...ways the U.S. health system can improve care while reducing spending, particularly for high-cost conditions. She designed a study in which a trained lay health worker conducted ongoing conversations with...
...his team in Stanford's Design for Extreme Affordability course developed CleanKit, a kit containing flip charts that concisely explain basic information on bacteria, viruses, and on how diseases spread. The...
...it more robust when saturated with sweat so it's reusable. They also hope to generalize the design to measure several biomarkers at once, not just cortisol. Photo by Brodie Vissers...
...most people, they feel that there is some impact of black men seeing black doctors -- but it has never been quantified using an experimental design." The research by Alsan...
...weekly series, some of our innovators will discuss their work and the patients that inspired them Uday Kumar, MD, was a 2005-06 Biodesign Innovation Fellow. Photo courtesy of Stanford Biodesign...
...2008. I came for medical school and stayed for the Design for Extreme Affordability program and for residency. Then, I received funding to do the master's program. This is the...
