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1 month ago | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Katia Savchuk |Gordy Slack |Erin Digitale
When Davron Jones' therapist prescribed fruits and vegetables, he was skeptical. The 52-year-old Alameda, California, resident was struggling with depression and alcohol addiction, as well as diabetes and a heart condition. His therapist, who worked at a community health clinic in nearby Oakland, thought improving his nutrition could help.
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2 months ago | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Katia Savchuk |Ruthann Richter |Erin Digitale
They're in the water we drink, the food we eat, the clothes we wear and the air we breathe. They've pervaded every ecosystem in the world, from coral reefs to Antarctic ice. And they've infiltrated the human body, lodging themselves in everything from brain tissue to reproductive organs. Microplastics -- plastic fragments up to 5 millimeters long -- are inescapable.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Caroline Hemphill |Erin Digitale
Many women have a heightened risk for depression during the peripartum period, the time during pregnancy and months to years after giving birth. But the options for mental health care aren't always convenient, accessible or affordable -- if they're even available. Ilang M.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
med.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale
The study used medical records from 1,201 children who were 6 to 11 years old, were patients at 11 pediatric primary care practices in the same health care network, and had a prescription for at least one ADHD medication. Such medications can have disruptive side effects, such as suppressing a child’s appetite, so it is important for doctors to inquire about side effects when patients are first using the drugs and adjust dosages as necessary.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Gordy Slack |Margarita Gallardo |Erin Digitale
Every five years the U.S. government releases an updated set of its Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The report, the first of which was issued in 1980, relies on the best available nutrition science to recommend dietary choices that promote health and prevent chronic disease.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale
It is important to prevent as many seizures as possible during pregnancy, as seizures can harm both the mother and the fetus. But keeping seizures under control comes with challenges. Studies by Meador and colleagues in the 1990s showed that a commonly used antiseizure medication called valproate was a poor choice during pregnancy because it confers significant risk to the children for conditions such as autism and lower IQ as well as impairment to other cognitive abilities.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Erin Digitale |Bruce Goldman
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday morning to three scientists who deepened our understanding of the protein cogs and widgets that make our cells function. Those understandings have already paved the way for new research at academic medical institutions such as the Stanford School of Medicine. One of the winners, biochemist David Baker, PhD, of the University of Washington, works frequently with several Stanford Medicine researchers.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale
The researchers scored the emergency departments' level of pediatric readiness on a scale of 0 to 100. Those with a score of at least 88 were considered highly ready to care for children; prior research showed that emergency departments at this level of readiness have better short- and long-term survival rates for pediatric patients. The researchers then focused on emergency departments with readiness scores below 88, comprising about 80% of the departments in the original sample.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Erin Digitale
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Kids who have a lot of difficulty sleeping are at heightened risk for developing suicidal thoughts and behaviors as they enter adolescence, a new Stanford Medicine-led study found.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Erin Digitale
California is doing a better job than most of the country at preventing the leading cause of childhood blindness, helping shrink racial disparities in the process, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study. The vision-damaging disease, called retinopathy of prematurity, is one of the top complications of premature birth. Across the United States, rates of this eye disease have nearly doubled in the last 20 years.
