During his three-day visit to India, President Barack Obama issued a joint statement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praising the “highly successful collaboration” that …
Tag: infectious disease
Infectious disease expert discusses concerns about undervaccination and California’s measles outbreak
Stanford's Yvonne Maldonado, MD, who heads up Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford infectious disease team, weighed in on California's measles outbreak last week on KQED's …
'Tis the season for norovirus
The week before Thanksgiving, some kind of stomach bug, which I suspect was norovirus, spread like wildfire among my daughter’s daycare. Several of her classmates …
Ending enablers: Stanford researcher examines genes to find virus helpers
Here’s this week’s Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford’s most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to scientists in a variety …
Stanford physician shares his story of treating Ebola patients in Liberia
For a month, emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, found himself in the remote, dense jungle of northeast Liberia in the heat of the battle against …
Q&A about enterovirus-D68 with Stanford/Packard infectious disease expert
Today's New York Times features a story on the accelerating spread of enterovirus-D68, a virus that is causing severe respiratory illness in children across the …