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2 months ago | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Margarita Gallardo |Mark Conley
Four years ago, celebrated cellist Joshua Roman was returning from a performance in Florida when he collapsed in tears on the stairs to his New York home, unable to take another step. A bout with COVID-19 left him so debilitated that at times he could barely lift his cello bow or even open his eyes and speak. "I would have this sudden onset of violent shaking and not know why. I still have that but it's much less often," he said recently.
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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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Nov 21, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Margarita Gallardo |Mark Conley
Around 1.5 billion people globally experience some level of hearing loss -- that's nearly 20% of the world's population. Losing the ability to hear can be devastating, and navigating the potential treatments isn't always straight forward. What actually causes it? Are there new treatments that can restore hearing? Can it be reversed? How does air travel affect hearing loss?
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo |Mark Conley |Krista Conger
In his nearly two decades as a clinical professor at Stanford Medicine, Bryant Lin had never stood before a classroom of students as a patient -- let alone as a patient who, despite never inhaling "a single puff of smoke of any kind," has been afflicted with an incurable form of late-stage lung cancer. Therefore, it was little surprise when the focus of lesson No. 1 in his new fall class swerved toward Lin's tear ducts rather than his lungs. "I was hoping not to get choked up...
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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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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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Apr 16, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Shaili Jain |Margarita Gallardo |Nina Bai
Mare Lucas felt euphoric. As if watching a movie about her life shot from a camera high above, she saw herself giving birth to her youngest son, now 17, surrounded by a happy family. Then she watched herself birthing her oldest son, Zane, who had died by suicide in 2017 at age 18. His birth had been a particularly difficult and dangerous one, and his death created a lasting trauma -- but now all she felt was overwhelming love and joy. She soaked in the beauty of the scene.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Gordy Slack |Margarita Gallardo
Lillie Reed has been raising awareness about gender-based violence and the resulting trauma ever since she began studying public health as an undergraduate at Duke University. But her passion for the work grew from personal experience. Raised in Greenville, North Carolina, Reed said her first experiences with abuse were at home and that her upbringing showed that the experience of domestic violence goes well beyond the violence. "The fear and anger and other ripple effects that violence creates ...
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo
In this We Are Stanford Med series, meet individuals who are shaping the future of medicine. They hail from all over the globe and come to Stanford Medicine carrying big ideas and dreams. Melanie Shojinaga was on top of the world when she began pursuing her dreams via the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies Program at Stanford Medicine in the fall of 2021. Then life took an unexpected turn. Toward the end of her first quarter, she began experiencing intense migraines.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo
In this We Are Stanford Med series, meet individuals who are shaping the future of medicine. They hail from all over the globe and come to Stanford Medicine carrying big ideas and dreams. For Christopher Lopez, currently a third-year medical student, the Stanford Medicine campus is more than just where he's pursuing his MD-PhD degree -- it sits on the ancestral land of the Ohlone people.
