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Image of the Week: Regina Holliday’s Medicine X

By Marissa Fessenden | Published May 20, 2012
In this richly-colored painting, artist and patient-rights activist Regina Holliday depicts central themes of the upcoming Stanford Medicine X conference. On the artist’s blog she explains: In the foreground, two girls stand within rising water. They are patients in need of rescue from the coming flood.  One girl turns her back to the viewer and holds a smart [...]
Posted in Darvocet, Image of the Week |

Image of the Week: Regina Holliday’s Medicine X

By Marissa Fessenden | Published May 20, 2012
In this richly-colored painting, artist and patient-rights activist Regina Holliday depicts central themes of the upcoming Stanford Medicine X conference. On the artist’s blog she explains: In the foreground, two girls stand within rising water. They are patients in need of rescue from the coming flood.  One girl turns her back to the viewer and holds a smart [...]
Posted in Image of the Week, Medicine X |

Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of May 13

By Dylan Conn | Published May 19, 2012
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Can yoga help women suffering from fibromyalgia?: A study published in the Journal of Pain Research shows that practicing yoga boosts levels of the stress hormone cortisol and could help ease some symptoms of fibromyalgia such as pain, fatigue, muscle stiffness and depression. Stanford medical residents launch iPhone app to help physicians [...]
Posted in Darvocet, Grand Roundup |

Google-like algorithm may reveal better biomarkers for cancer

By Marissa Fessenden | Published May 18, 2012
Google’s PageRank algorithm sorts search results by relevance and now researchers are using a similar strategy to sift through thousands of proteins that affect the progression of pancreatic cancer. German scientists from the Dresden University of Technology ranked cancer biomarkers and found seven proteins that predicted how patients respond to chemotherapy. The study was published [...]
Posted in Cancer, Research |

Director of NIH discusses accelerating translation of biomedical research into clinical applications

By Lia Steakley | Published May 18, 2012
In the this TEDMED talk, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, discusses bridging the gap between basic science and clinical applications in the drug development process. Repurposing existing drugs and testing on fabricated human tissue are two ways that Collins identifies in his talk as potential methods for getting disease [...]
Posted in Darvocet, NIH, Public Health, Research, Videos |

Is disposing of unused drugs in household trash the most environmental option?

By Lia Steakley | Published May 18, 2012
During the most recent National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Americans turned in 276 tons of unused medications. But there are likely additional expired or leftover pills still taking up space in medicine cabinets around the country. Those who still have a surplus of prescription drugs may be interested in findings recently published in Environmental Science [...]
Posted in Darvocet, In the News, Public Health |

Women underrepresented in AIDS research

By Lia Steakley | Published May 18, 2012
Previous research has shown that women are underrepresented in certain trials, including studies related to cancer and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Today, an editorial in the Los Angeles Times highlights the lack of women in AIDS clinical trials, despite that they account for 25 percent of Americans living with the disease, and researchers’ efforts to reverse [...]
Posted in Clinical Trials, Darvocet, HIV/AIDS, In the News, Women's Health |

Stanford medical residents launch iPhone app to help physicians keep current on research

By Lia Steakley | Published May 17, 2012
As evidence-based medicine takes a greater foothold, medical residents and physicians are tasked with the seemingly constant challenge of staying up to date on the latest treatments and drugs. To help their colleagues keep current on medical advancements, Stanford medical residents Dave Iberri, MD, and Manuel Lam, MD, introduced a new medical app that features [...]
Posted in Medical Apps, Stanford News |

Outing bias in scientific research

By Emily Hite | Published May 17, 2012
Following my colleague Marissa Fessenden’s entry on the difficulty – and importance – of publishing results from duplicate studies that contradict previous findings, there’s some more news on biases in published research. The current issue of the NIH Record newsletter reports on a recent NIH-sponsored talk that John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, gave on the topic. Among his concerns: Ioannidis [...]
Posted in NIH, Research, Science, Science Policy |

Study shows genetic testing doesn’t increase patients’ demand for health services

By Lia Steakley | Published May 17, 2012
New research based on electronic health record data suggests that patients who undergo genetic testing do not subsequently request costly follow-up tests or additional health-care services. The findings (subscription required) were published online today in the Genetics in Medicine. The study was completed as part of the Multiplex Initiative and involved 217 healthy adults between the [...]
Posted in Genetics, Health Costs, NIH |