Stanford University Medical Center
Imaging study reveals differences in brain function for children with math anxiety
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those who don't.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Researchers discover drug target for stimulating recovery from stroke
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain's capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells ...
Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Ibuprofen decreases likelihood of altitude sickness, researchers find
A new study led by Grant Lipman, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and a clinical assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has found that ibuprofen, a widely available, ...
Medications
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Scientists boost potency, reduce side effects of IL-2 protein used to treat cancer
The utility of a naturally occurring protein given, sometimes to great effect, as a drug to treat advanced cancers is limited by the severe side effects it sometimes causes. But a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist ...
Medical research
Mar 18, 2012 |
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First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset
Geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD, has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at the Stanford University School of Medicine pored over his body's most intimate secrets: the sequence of his DNA, the ...
Genetics
Mar 15, 2012 |
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New computer algorithm discovers drug side effects, interactions
A week ago, you started a new prescription medication for acne. Today, you feel dizzy and short of breath and have difficulty concentrating. Your symptoms are not listed in the package insert as possible side effects of the ...
Medical research
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Pelayo offers tips to deal with 'spring forward' clock change
The change to daylight saving time and other changes to sleep schedules can make it hard to fall or stay asleep. In an effort to help you spring forward and stay on track, Stanford sleep expert Rafael Pelayo, MD, associate ...
Sleep apnea
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Kidney-transplant patients celebrate unprecedented freedom from immunosuppressant drugs
(Medical Xpress) -- In the year 2000, just as Daniel Bitner was starting dental school at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, he got a kick in the teeth. A routine physical turned up elevated blood pressure ...
Medical research
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Irradiation and stem cells used in new treatment to enable kidney recipients to forego immunosuppressant drugs
With a novel approach that creates a more-accepting immune system, Stanford School of Medicine physicians have pioneered a technique that frees kidney-transplant recipients from a life on anti-rejection drugs.
Immunology
Mar 08, 2012 |
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New immune-system sensor may speed up, slash cost of detecting disease
An inexpensive new medical sensor has the potential to simplify the diagnosis of diseases ranging from life-threatening immune deficiencies to the common cold, according to its inventors at the Stanford University School ...
Medical research
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Drug offers relief for symptoms of myelofibrosis
People with a blood cancer — myelofibrosis — can benefit from a drug called ruxolitinib, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that included patients and researchers from the ...
Cancer
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Understanding a woman's heart means knowing what to look for
Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk ...
Cardiology
Feb 27, 2012 |
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5 Questions: Blaschke on patients who don't 'dose' properly
Your doctor writes out a prescription that calls for you to take a pill twice a day for the next month. So, that’s what you do, right? Wrong. A huge number of Americans fail to properly follow their doctors’ orders. ...
Medications
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Population studies at heart of initiative to improve health
In an era of personalized medicine, the idea of our collective health may seem a bit old-fashioned. But as our growing population ages and alarm bells sound about the appalling prevalence of serious health threats such as ...
Health
Feb 27, 2012 |
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With amputation averted, triathlete can now prepare for next big race
Clifford Barnes heard the news in April: He might lose his left leg below the knee. The prospect was almost too much to bear for the 57-year-old triathlete, whose passion is competing in endurance races.
Surgery
Feb 27, 2012 |
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