Beth Duff-Brown

1 month ago | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Jamie Hansen |Beth Duff-Brown |Christopher Vaughan

Raw milk has made headlines recently for widespread samples containing the virus that causes H5N1, or bird flu, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture launching a program in December to track the virus through milk testing. But bird flu is far from the only disease-causing pathogen lurking in raw milk: Unpasteurized milk can contain bacteria such as E. coli and Listeria, for instance.

May 14, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Jamie Hansen |Beth Duff-Brown |Christopher Vaughan

The H5N1 bird flu, highly infectious and deadly in birds, has been around for nearly three decades, but recently, it has been changing in ways that raise alarms for many scientists and public health officials. In particular, the recent spread of the virus among dairy cows and the discovery of genetic traces of the virus in 1 in 5 milk samples have sparked concerns that the virus may become more transmissible to humans.

Apr 1, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Beth Duff-Brown

Researchers who study long COVID say its debilitating symptoms are often misdiagnosed by clinicians and dismissed by employers or loved ones because so little is known about the new syndrome. The results can be devastating for individuals and their families—and for the economy. It reminds Stanford Medicine's Hector Bonilla, MD, of another little-understood condition that the medical world still struggles to treat correctly.

Mar 27, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Beth Duff-Brown |Christopher Vaughan |John Sanford

Researchers who study long COVID say its debilitating symptoms are often misdiagnosed by clinicians and dismissed by employers or loved ones because so little is known about the new syndrome. The results can be devastating for individuals and their families -- and for the economy. It reminds Stanford Medicine's Hector Bonilla, MD, of another little-understood condition that the medical world still struggles to treat correctly.

Nov 10, 2023 | newlinesmag.com | Beth Duff-Brown

A biracial woman in an English seaside town searches for the family she lost amid the upheaval of her country’s independence Listen to this storyMonique Chantal Duchene recalls her final moments in the Congolese village where she was born. A white woman takes her by the hand and leads her to an old sedan where two nuns in habits are reaching out to her with a toy gendarme and some lollipops.