Stanford health care providers and vet technicians volunteered to help humans and animals affected by the most destructive fire in California’s history.
Tag: In the News
Amid devastation from the fire, a Stanford doctor stitches up George, a search dog
While working on the search and rescue team in the ruins of the Camp Fire, a Stanford emergency medicine physician helps in an unexpected way.
How does poor air quality affect your health?
Asthma and pollution expert Mary Prunicki discusses the physical and mental effects of unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke.
Stanford tobacco researcher weighs in on JUUL
In this commentary, Stanford tobacco expert Robert Jackler adds context to the recent decision by JUUL to stop direct social media in the U.S.
Living with cancer: A Q&A with comedian Fred Reiss
Three-time cancer survivor Fred Reiss uses comedy to share his experience with the disease.
An anesthesiologist opens up on the mystery of putting patients to sleep
A conversation with anesthesiologist Henry Jay Przybylo about his new memoir, "Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia."
Open access critical for exchange of research, Stanford professor argues
Without access to journals via a university library or other institutional subscription, thousands of students and researchers are effectively excluded from the exchange of scientific …
Stanford’s Lloyd Minor featured in piece on rare inner ear disorder
Superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is a debilitating and rare inner ear disorder that affects hearing and balance. People who suffer from this can hear things …
Increasing number of hospitals offer breast milk to preemies
In the last decade, the number of hospitals giving premature infants donated breast milk has nearly doubled, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. This …
Exploring new recommendations to diagnose prenatal and postpartum depression
Although having a child is usually considered a happy event, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of women living in the U.S. develop some form of …
“The need is out there”: A look at the new Teen Van
It's big, blue and beneficial to hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area teens who don't have the means or the motivation to visit a traditional …
How to tell if you’re sleep deprived
Are you chronically cranky or hungry (or, worse, hangry)? Are you clumsy or prone to nodding off during a show? Those are just a few of the …
Pain: When the professional becomes personal
For 10 long months, Philip Pizzo, MD, suffered from incapacitating nerve pain. Even worse, top medical experts were stumped. He describes his ordeal in a …
Turning loss into hope for others: New website teaches about mental health
Suicide slices close to the heart for me, and I remember well the story of Shelby Drazan, a Woodside, Calif. 17-year-old who died by suicide …
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 …
On narcolepsy, naps, the genetics of sleep (and chocolate?)
Someone who studies sleep for a living surely sleeps soundly, right? Maintains a set bedtime and snoozes for a full eight hours? Not necessarily, a …