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Jun 27, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Mark Conley |Emily Moskal |Helen Santoro
Jay Shah, MD, took a deep breath as he stood on the Berg Hall stage and looked out across the crowd. It was made up of 150 of his Stanford Medicine peers, some of them longtime mentors and collaborators. Though he is accustomed to speaking before much larger crowds, this time was different. The surgeon and urologist was about to share something profoundly personal with a group of physicians, a human subset often preconditioned to wear the same steely veneer he had long worn.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
stanmed.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal
Reducing socioeconomic barriers to care. Integrating cultural nuance and religious understanding. Advocating for public policy changes to support patients’ mental health. These are a few of the actions Stanford Medicine therapists who work with marginalized communities say are keys to effectively caring for patients who face societal discrimination.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Anna Marie Yanny |Alan Toth |Emily Moskal |Alan TothPublished
While artificial intelligence chatbots are getting better at mimicking humans, they aren't always developed with medicine in mind. That's why Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction. These efforts to help physicians care for patients more efficiently, without compromising accuracy, could help guide how AI enters the doctor's office in the years to come.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal
We need quiet to become "a better clinician, a better scientist, a better physician assistant, a better human being," Verghese said. That's when true inspiration - whether for better patient care or a research discovery - visits.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Nina Bai |Emily Moskal
At exactly 9 a.m. Pacific Time on every third Friday of March, anxious graduating medical students around the country tear open envelopes to reveal where they matched for their residencies. These three- to seven-year residency programs, usually based at hospitals, are essentially their first jobs out of medical school and the next stage of their training to become fully fledged and licensed physicians.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal
While supporting actors are often overlooked, without their contribution, a story's main characters would lose context and resort to isolated monologues. The same is true for neurons -- the top-billing stars of cognition -- when firing in the brain. Without cells called glia, which form the bulk of brain matter, neurons would stop communicating with each other, as seen in neurodegeneration.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Anna Marie Yanny |Emily Moskal |Paul Costello
As clinicians like Latha Palaniappan assess their patients' susceptibility to cardiovascular disease, they enter the patients' race into an automated risk calculator. It's how things have been done for more than a decade, with race included as one of the data points used to predict if someone will have an adverse heart event in the next decade.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale |Emily Moskal
Across the United States, Black women are three to four times as likely as their white peers to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications or die giving birth. Given that the U.S. maternal mortality rate of 32 deaths per 100,000 live births is 10 times higher than that in countries with the lowest rates of maternal death, the inequity is setting off public health alarms.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal |Erin Digitale |Mandy Erickson
About 11% of all women and about 50% of infertile women have it: a uterine lining that grows in places it shouldn't. The lining, known as the endometrium, can sprawl outside of or within the walls of the uterus. The condition is called endometriosis. Despite the fact the disease greatly reduces the quality of many women's lives, it remains understudied, said Nichole Tyson, MD, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford Medicine.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
med.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal
In a study with 22 pairs of identical twins, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have found that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks. Although it's well-known that eating less meat improves cardiovascular health, diet studies are often hampered by factors such as genetic differences, upbringing and lifestyle choices.
