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Sep 24, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Mandy Erickson
Wearing a red dress, a basket cap, abalone shell earrings and a mink pelt, Melissa Eidman strode up to the microphone during the School of Medicine's white coat ceremony and announced her home town: Weitchpec, California. Weitchpec, in the state's far northwestern corner, is the home of her ancestors, the Yurok Tribe. Her accessories are traditional garb; the pelt is a family heirloom.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo |Mandy Erickson |Alan Toth |Alan TothPublished
Whether she establishes an army of community health workers or helps get a medical complex built -- both if she can do it -- Bongeka Zuma, MD, is determined to provide better care for people in her tiny rural hometown of Nkwezela, South Africa. "There is no world in which I don't help my people," said the recent graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Nina Bai |Mandy Erickson
From the 1930s to the 1950s, tobacco companies regularly advertised in medical journals, promoting their brand of cigarettes as the healthier choice. More doctors smoke Camels, they touted. Philip Morris cigarettes don't cause throat irritation. Menthol cigarettes might even cure the common cold. These may seem like quaint anecdotes from another era, but the tobacco industry continues to solicit allies from the medical community.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo |Mark Conley |Mandy Erickson
The hard work that lies ahead for Gianna Nino-Tapias, her not-so-humble goal of transforming the country's health care system, isn't all that different from the hard work her mother still performs daily, body hunched, joints aching, in the fields of Kennewick, Washington. They are the same blueberry fields where Nino-Tapias began her own working life at age 14, snatching fruit off the bushes sprouting from the volcanic-ash-rich soil of the Columbia basin.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Bruce Goldman |Mandy Erickson
Part 2: This is the second of a three-part series on how Stanford Medicine researchers are designing vaccines that protect people from not merely individual viral strains but broad ranges of them. The ultimate goal: a vaccine with coverage so broad it can protect against viruses never before encountered. The series opener focused on why having vaccines that cover not just one strain of a single virus, but many, could be an invaluable advance.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
isanti-chisagocountystar.com | Mandy Erickson
Commercial harvest of western painted turtles and snapping turtles is no longer allowed in Minnesota beginning Jan. 1, the result of a new law enacted in 2023. People will still be allowed to raise turtles for commercial purposes under an aquaculture license with a turtle endorsement. In addition, also beginning on Jan. 1, anglers will need both an angling license and a newly required recreational turtle license to harvest turtles using angling gear like hook and line, landing nets and gaff hooks.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
med.stanford.edu | Mandy Erickson
Robert Chase, MD, a surgeon and anatomist who not only repaired injured and diseased hands but also taught students and residents, led the National Board of Medical Examiners, and curated a well-known collection of anatomical images, died Sept. 9, 2024. He was 101. In 1985, Chase founded the division of hand surgery at Stanford Medicine.
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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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Dec 5, 2023 | 
scitechdaily.com | Nina Bai |Mandy Erickson
A new technique using deep brain stimulation tailored to each patient exceeded researchers’ expectations in treating the cognitive impairments from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. In 2001, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, planning to apply to law school, when she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. The injury so compromised her ability to focus she struggled in a job sorting mail.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
med.stanford.edu | Mandy Erickson
- By Nina Bai, Mandy Erickson In 2001, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, planning to apply to law school, when she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. The injury so compromised her ability to focus she struggled in a job sorting mail. “I couldn’t remember anything,” said Arata, who lives in Modesto with her parents. “My left foot dropped, so I’d trip over things all the time. I was always in car accidents.
