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2 months ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Nina Bai
For people with weakened immune systems, common molds lurking in the environment—in the soil, along damp walls or on a forgotten apple—can cause dangerous infections deep inside the body. These invasive mold infections can quickly become fatal without treatment, yet they are difficult to diagnose without invasive procedures such as a tissue biopsy. Now, a blood test developed at Stanford Medicine offers a safer, faster way to diagnose invasive mold disease.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
stanmed.stanford.edu | Nina Bai
Advances in cancer science, prevention and care Cancer is infamously cunning, expansive and relentless. It has a talent for evading treatment, spreading throughout the body and coming back again and again.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Nina Bai |Bruce Goldman |Nina BaiPublished
The number of people living with Parkinson's disease globally has doubled in the past 25 years. Yet the treatment and monitoring of the neurological disease seems many decades behind. Clinicians typically gauge the severity of the disease using subjective rating scales, and a shortage of doctors trained to treat Parkinson's means that people can go months -- or years -- between clinic visits.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Jamie Hansen |Nina Bai |Krista Conger |Nina BaiPublished
Mpox has returned as a significant global health concern in recent months. A relative of smallpox, mpox (formerly called monkeypox) has circulated in Central and West African countries for decades. In the last few years, a new offshoot of the virus emerged which spread more readily through close person-to-person contact.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale |Nina Bai |Nina BaiPublished
Over the last decade, physicians have taken a broader view of adolescent eating disorders, thanks to a growing recognition of the variety of disordered eating patterns that can harm patients' health, especially their heart function. As a result, hospitalization rates for adolescent eating disorders have climbed six- to seven-fold since 2010, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study published recently in Hospital Pediatrics.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Erin Digitale |Nina Bai |Nina BaiPublished
Over the last decade, physicians have taken a broader view of adolescent eating disorders, thanks to a growing recognition of the variety of disordered eating patterns that can harm patients' health, especially their heart function. As a result, hospitalization rates for adolescent eating disorders have climbed six- to seven-fold since 2010, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study published recently in Hospital Pediatrics.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal |Nina Bai |Helen Santoro |Nina BaiPublished
Michelle de Haaff is no stranger to the startup world, having served on the founding teams of several over the past 25 years. But the best way, she said, to launch and scale health care innovation is by empowering entrepreneurs to understand and innovate around unmet needs.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Emily Moskal |Nina Bai |Nina BaiPublished
In July of 2021, Kaitlyn McCaffery was found unconscious from a head injury on the side of a road in Bali, Indonesia, where she had been touring the country for leisure. Before Bali, she had visited 62 countries mostly as a professional tour guide. A civilian found her and took her to Sanglah General Hospital in Denpasar, where doctors diagnosed her with a traumatic brain injury. She has no memory of the event and never learned what happened to her.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Anna Marie Yanny |Nina Bai |Nina BaiPublished
The first time it happened, I was in a high school physics class. Suddenly, I couldn't read half of the board. A crack zig-zagged through my vision, obscuring my teacher's notes. "Huh," I thought. "This can't be good."My classmate walked me to the school nurse, who called my mom. Pain rippled from the back of my neck to my forehead. I'd had headaches before, but not like this. "Ah, your first migraine," Mom said.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Mandy Erickson |Nina Bai |Alan Toth |Nina BaiPublished
The idea that a leaner body makes for a faster stride is common among distance runners. But it's inaccurate and sets a dangerous ideal, according to Megan Roche, MD, PhD, an ultrarunner and researcher at Stanford Medicine. Runners who are excessively lean are prone to injuries, infectious diseases, mental health problems and loss in bone density, said Michael Fredericson, MD, a professor of orthopaedic surgery who has served for decades as the Stanford University track team head physician.
