Stanford Medicine Reimagining palliative care learning during a pandemic - Scope stanford.edu - Jan DeNofrio Last March, when it looked like medical students would not be able to complete an in-person palliative medicine clerkship, one of the clinical …
Stanford Medicine A line of trust: Stanford Medicine physician supports family members, by phone - Scope stanford.edu - Daphne Sashin Each day, after Ricky Hansra, MD, visits his patients in intensive care, he settles in for another round of check-ins, which he's grown accustomed to …
Stanford MedicineHealth Community bonds help barbers improve health for Black men - Scope stanford.edu - Tracie White Yusef Wright, who owns and runs a barbershop in downtown Oakland, does a lot more than just cut basketball star Stephen Curry's hair. Wright is a …
Stanford Medicine Earlier colonoscopies halve subsequent cancer risk - Scope stanford.edu - Krista Conger "You're only as old as you feel" isn't really applicable to routine medical screening, I'm finding (somewhat ruefully). Lately it seems that each …
Stanford Medicine It takes a team: Caring for kids with COVID-19 - Scope stanford.edu - Erin Digitale In children, respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 are rare. Since the pandemic began, most of the children hospitalized at Lucile Packard Children's …
Stanford Medicine I wrote a book about a scientist's journey to save his desperately ill son - Scope stanford.edu - Tracie White The first time I walked up to the Palo Alto home of the legendary scientist Ron Davis, PhD, it was with a heavy heart. It was early evening in the …
Stanford Medicine Inside the brain: How cellphones lead to distracted driving - Scope stanford.edu - Mandy Erickson Years ago, as psychiatrist Allan Reiss, MD, was bicycling on campus, his cellphone rang. He answered it and kept cycling, then a car in front of him …
Stanford Medicine When COVID-19 drained supplies and PPE, Stanford Medicine's "guardian angel" created solutions - Scope stanford.edu - Mandy Erickson Last spring, as hundreds of patients began driving onto the Stanford campus for coronavirus testing, workers in the supply department realized they …
Stanford Medicine How a Nobel laureate's life story and encouraging words inspire my scientific journey - Scope stanford.edu - Emily Ashkin Editor's update: Emily Ashkin is featured in a podcast from The Lasker Foundation. My legs were starting to ache from standing by my research poster …
Stanford Medicine Did COVID affect your use of alcohol? Tobacco? Marijuana? Here are 3 reasons why - Scope stanford.edu - Keith Humphreys When COVID emerged and lockdowns started, I had 5 bottles of wine on my shelf, normally about a month's supply. One year later, I still have one of …
Stanford Medicine Pain relief device uses real-world evidence to gain clearance, expanding options for kids - Scope stanford.edu - Stacey Paris McCutcheon For years, pediatric surgeon James Wall, MD, has observed his colleagues using a cold therapy device to significantly reduce post-operative pain in …
Stanford Medicine "Tremendously grateful": Running drive-through COVID operations at Stanford Health Care - Scope stanford.edu - Mandy Erickson Thanh Khong, PA-C, who oversees many of Stanford Health Care's drive-through testing and vaccination sites, spends most of his time managing the …
Stanford Medicine Biodesign and otolaryngology team up for hearing loss and other ear, nose, and throat challenges - Scope stanford.edu - Stacey Paris McCutcheon When high-pitched sounds are hard to hear, speech sounds muffled. People feel like they can hear, but they can't understand. The condition is called …
Stanford Medicine Walk With Me: Learning from patients and family partners - Scope stanford.edu - Marcello Kendrew Chang As a first year medical student browsing through electives, the Walk With Me course caught my eye because it would pair me with a patient or family …
Stanford Medicine Less is more? Focused genetic testing recommended for breast and ovarian cancers - Scope stanford.edu - Krista Conger Homing in on about 20 key genes known to be associated with breast or ovarian cancer is likely to provide patients and their doctors with news they …
Stanford Medicine "The team has risen to the challenge": Nurse steps up during pandemic - Scope stanford.edu - Tracie White Charles Ayson was working the night shift at Stanford hospital in mid-March when it was announced that the 22-bed medical unit where he worked as a …
Stanford Medicine COVID provides opportunity to rethink inequitable roles in global health partnerships - Scope stanford.edu - Michele Barry While high-income countries have erupted into uncontrolled spread of COVID-19, many low-and-middle-income countries have fared far better. This …
Stanford Medicine Take heed: Turn to the experts to interpret pharmacogenetic tests - Scope stanford.edu - Hanae Armitage Pharmacogenetic tests -- which examine how genes affect your ability to process medications -- are on the rise. Dozens of companies are entering the …
Stanford Medicine "A personal hero": Caring for COVID-19 patients and medical colleagues - Scope stanford.edu - Mandy Erickson The patients Kelly Sanderson cares for all have COVID-19, but their experiences with the disease vary dramatically. Some patients suffer from fever …
Stanford Medicine Menstrual cycle more powerful than daily, weekly and seasonal cycles in command of mood, vital signs - Scope stanford.edu - Hanae Armitage If periods were planets, they would have a very strong gravitational pull. Alas, periods are periods. And while menstruation may not have the power to …
Stanford Medicine A cancer treatment that tackles heart disease? - Scope stanford.edu - Krista Conger A cancer treatment in clinical trials may also reduce the inflammation responsible for atherosclerosis -- the buildup of plaque inside arteries that …
Stanford Medicine Reducing falls for older adults: What's different during the pandemic? - Scope stanford.edu - Claire Jacobson At the start of 2020, an 82 year-old man we'll call Walter was using many of the strategies that we have been discussing throughout this series …
Stanford Medicine PA candidate at Stanford Medicine was medic in war zones and New York City COVID-19 surge - Scope stanford.edu - Daphne Sashin Zach West was a New York City paramedic during COVID-19's first wave. Now a student in Stanford Medicine's Physician Assistant program, he looks back …
Stanford Medicine A sleep scientist's legacy: Generations of well-rested students - Scope stanford.edu - Mandy Erickson When he was an undergraduate at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Horowitz took a class called Sleep and Dreams taught by the late …
Stanford Medicine Names on surgical caps boost communication during C-sections, study finds - Scope stanford.edu - Erin Digitale In the operating room, everyone looks the same. Doctors, nurses and other caregivers are covered in protective gear from head to foot, and wear …
Stanford MedicineFood Allergies Data from twins suggests gut bacteria are important in food allergies, says Stanford-led study stanford.edu - Erin Digitale A comparison of twins with and without food allergies has uncovered distinct differences in the fecal bacteria of allergic and non-allergic …
Stanford Medicine Stanford nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine shows early success in mice - Scope stanford.edu - Taylor Kubota Stanford University researchers, led by biochemist Peter Kim, PhD, have begun developing a new vaccine candidate for COVID-19 that doesn't need to be …
Stanford MedicineTai Chi Reducing falls for older adults: How physical activity keeps you balanced - Scope stanford.edu - Claire Jacobson Ann, 73, participates in daily online exercise classes offered by a local company. She expressed the benefits of physical activity eloquently. "I …
Stanford Medicine Excised tonsils aid study of COVID-19 vaccines, the flu and more - Scope stanford.edu - Bruce Goldman A sizable chunk of the U.S. population has had a sizable chunk of tissue -- their tonsils -- excised from their throats. Each year in the United …
