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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Nina Bai |Bruce Goldman
For most of human history, drug discovery has often relied on serendipity. Various natural substances, usually from plants, were ingested or applied, their effects judged by both observation and superstition. Through trial and error, some enduring remedies emerged: morphine from poppy seeds, quinine from the bark of cinchona trees and aspirin from the bark of willow trees.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nina Bai
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Nina Bai
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:An injury or sudden illness serious enough to require hospitalization is a high-stress experience for anyone. For most people, that stress is temporary. For others, however, the episode can lead to lasting mental health distress.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Nina Bai
Frances Krauskopf Conley, MD, a trailblazing neurosurgeon at Stanford Medicine, who, in 1982, became the country's first female tenured professor in neurosurgery and later made national headlines for speaking out against sexism in medicine, died Aug. 5, 2024, in Sea Ranch, California, after a long illness. She was 83.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Nina Bai |Rachel Tompa
Since the first astronauts spent time in space, scientists have known that space travel affects the human body in strange ways. Muscle and bone mass decrease; telomeres, the protective end caps on chromosomes, shorten; and the risk of conditions usually associated with old age, such as cancers, cataracts and cardiovascular disease, ticks up.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Nina Bai
Everyone knows that air pollution is bad for health, but how bad depends a lot on who you are. People of different races and ethnicities, education levels, locations and socioeconomic situations tend to be exposed to different degrees of air pollution. Even at the same exposure levels, people's ability to cope with its effects—by accessing timely health care, for example—varies.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Nina Bai
Exposure to these fine particles can exacerbate asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the short term, and in the long term contribute to heart disease, dementia, stroke and cancer. In 1990, 85.9% of the U.S. population was exposed to average PM2.5 levels above 12 micrograms per cubic meter - the threshold set by the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2016, only 0.9% of the population was exposed to average levels above the threshold.
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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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Jul 3, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Nina Bai
- By Nina Bai Every great superhero needs a sidekick. Now, scientists may have found a drug-busting partner for naloxone. Naloxone is an opioid antidote that has saved tens of thousands of lives by rapidly reversing opioid overdoses in more than 90% of cases in which it is used. But its powers are temporary, lasting only 30 to 90 minutes. The rise of potent, long-acting opioids such as fentanyl means that someone brought back from the brink can still overdose after the naloxone wears off.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
med.stanford.edu | Nina Bai
Cognitive behavioral therapy, one of the most common treatments for depression, can teach skills for coping with everyday troubles, reinforce healthy behaviors and counter negative thoughts. But can altering thoughts and behaviors lead to lasting changes in the brain? New research led by Stanford Medicine has found that it can - if a therapy is matched with the right patients.
