The National Institutes of Health recently finalized new rules aimed at reducing financial conflicts of interest and industry influence among federally funded researchers. Starting on …
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Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building to open on the Stanford campus
Stanford might be lovingly referred to as "The Farm," but it's also home to research facilities that are as beautiful as they are high-tech. The …
Untrained marathoners may risk temporary heart damage
After last week's Nike Women's Marathon, my Facebook page was peppered with celebratory status updates from runners. I was impressed, of course, that twenty thousand …
Image of the week: Your brain on love
Passionate feelings of love activate reward systems in the brain and can block the sensation of pain, according to neuroimaging research published this week by …
Districts pushing back bells for the sake of teens' sleep
Last month, sleep researchers from Brown University confirmed what any adolescent already knows: School starts too early. Their study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics …
Active great-grandmother dives into a healthy old age
When I grow up, I want to be like this lady. The San Diego Union Tribune reported today on Edna Baldwin, a 90-year-old who celebrated …
"Pro-ana" websites reflect users' conflicted inner worlds
In the world of disturbing web content, it doesn’t get much worse than so-called “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” sites. The virtual community boards, where anorexic and …
In commencement address, Atul Gawande calls for innovation around "entire packages of care"
The explosion of health care costs in America is not a problem rooted in economics; it's a problem rooted in scientific complexity. That was the …
Growing new inner-ear cells: a step toward a cure for deafness
Stanford researchers have successfully used mouse stem cells and fibroblasts to re-create the creature's inner ear cells - right down to the tiny hairs that sense vibrations. The breakthrough could pave the way to the development of therapies for human hearing loss.
Stanford researchers have successfully used mouse stem cells and fibroblasts to re-create the creature's inner ear cells - right down to the tiny hairs that sense vibrations. The breakthrough could pave the way to the development of therapies for human hearing loss.