This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Cooper Galvin, a graduate student in biophysics, who is working to make science accessible to all.
A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and faces.
The team showed that a better attitude toward math was linked to better function of an important brain memory center while the kids did math problems.
All medical students should have the opportunity to teach, writes fourth-year medical student Nathaniel Fleming.
“So you’re currently not taking any steps towards improving your nutrition?” I asked. The woman glared; my face flushed. “No,” she said sharply, “I told …
Sometimes when Milt McColl, MD, is on rounds with other physicians in his medical residency, patients turn to him, thinking he’s the doctor in charge …
Dear Future Med Students, Congratulations on your acceptance to medical school! Wherever you're starting this fall, know that you're joining a “cult” of health care …
While the education gap is virtually nil in the United States, fewer girls in developing countries finish high school. And this results in poor health …
On Saturday, Stanford Medicine’s graduating class will walk away from campus with a new title: Doctor. The day of celebration begins with a commencement brunch for graduates …
When I recently asked Stanford medical student Kimberly Souza whether there were any patients in her research study on burns that she remembered well, she smiled …
Growing up in India, Aparna Sridhar, MD, devoured comics like Tintin and Asterix. And as a gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Sridhar spends …
Since she was a little girl, Cyrena Gawuga, PhD, wanted to be a doctor. But struggles with lupus and bipolar disorder forced her to drop out …
When your little boy is diagnosed with a progressive and fatal disease that he can't understand, let alone pronounce, you become an advocate in a …
Here's the scenario, Neha Sangwan, MD, a medical and personal communications consultant, told a rapt Medicine X | ED audience Saturday afternoon. She was addressing the …
A large group of care providers often swirls around each patient. There's a primary doctor and nurses and specialists of all sorts — MDs like radiologists …
Dan Schwartz, PhD, found himself unconvinced after a recent visit to his general practitioner. In for a bad wheel, he’d been given a simple diagnosis: …
