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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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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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Nov 13, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Daphne Sashin |Holly MacCormick
After spending countless hours at his mother's bedside in the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital, Esteban Manriquez sought out a quiet spot where he could rest and recharge. He found it at the Frank Family Resource Center on the hospital's third floor, a peaceful refuge and a source of support and information to nurture those caring for loved ones. "After more than a week here, you begin to feel trapped," said Manriquez, whose mother was recuperating from a liver transplant.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Lindzi Wessel
For more than two decades, the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign has taught aspiring health technology innovators to deliver valuable products to patients. Part of that training is ensuring that all the center's fellows have a better understanding of health equity and that they appreciate the ways new technologies can widen or narrow the gaps in access to care.
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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.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Hanae Armitage |Angela Gargano
Kentucky rancher Sharon Banford desperately wanted to save her thoroughbred, who had developed a massive jaw deformity. The horse's condition caused Banford to lie awake at night, plagued by the thought that her year-and-a-half-old filly would have to be euthanized. But as fate would have it, her veterinarian knew of an unusual solution -- an experimental device created by Stanford Medicine bioengineers to treat severe bone injuries.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Margarita Gallardo
Amir Bahmani, PhD, reached a desperate low in his life following the death of his wife, Someyra, in 2014. Doctors mistook her terrible pain for an inflamed gallbladder, missing the signs of a malignant cancer. "If they had collected the data, they would have seen that something was going on internally, that there was a big shift underway that occurs with cancer patients," said Bahmani, director of the Stanford Deep Data Research Center.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
med.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter
- By Alan Toth, Ruthann Richter Leaders in medicine, business and technology gathered at Stanford School of Medicine’s Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge Sept. 9 and 10 for the inaugural Big Ideas in Medicine conference. Eighteen speakers addressed the most critical concerns and opportunities for medicine in the coming years including artificial intelligence, health equity, oncology, and aging and longevity.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Hanae Armitage |Jamie Hansen
Imagine a man who spends a year in a Brazilian prison while awaiting trial. While there, he's unknowingly exposed to tuberculosis, a deadly, slow-developing airborne bacterial disease. Acquitted, he returns home to his wife and young child, only to develop fever, weakness and, eventually, a cough. He's diagnosed with TB months later. By then, he's unwittingly exposed his family and community.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Erin Digitale
Operating rooms generate a lot of trash -- as much as nine or 10 large garbage bags' worth from each major surgery, as I learned while reporting a recent feature story for Stanford Medicine magazine on greening the OR. Dana Hiniker, sustainability program manager at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, is one of many experts in the story who is changing that.
