New Stanford Medicine podcast, Health Compass, focuses on the crucial research and important researchers moving health topics forward. The post Stanford Medicine launches new podcast, Health Compass appeared first on Scope ..read more

Biodesign program aims to ensure all trainees have a better understanding of health equity and appreciate the ways in which new technologies can widen or narrow the gaps in access to care. The post Biodesign cultivates community partnerships to broaden understanding of health equity appeared first on Scope ..read more

Bryant Lin has taken his diagnosis of stage IV ‘never-smoker’ lung cancer, which disproportionately affects those of Asian descent, and turned it into a medical school course. He hopes the world takes notes along with the students and Stanford Medicine community. The post A doctor, his cancer journey and a uniquely teachable moment appeared first on Scope ..read more

Stanford Medicine bioethicist Tyler Tate found high levels of success in ballet, miming, acting, fencing and collegiate tennis. But his love of storytelling ultimately led him to medicine. The post From ballet to medicine, a love of stories has driven this bioethicist appeared first on Scope ..read more

The Unconventional Path of Stanford Medicine hematologist Tamara Dunn had her eyeing a career on Broadway. The post How mixing music and medicine keeps this doctor grounded appeared first on Scope ..read more

Bongeka Zuma, graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s academy and Stanford School of Medicine, discusses her plans to advance medical care in her hometown. The post Paying back her people: New doctor has plans to return to her African village appeared first on Scope ..read more

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. In its latest tactic, Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco company, succeeded in funding a series of continuing medical education courses on the o ..read more

Jay Shah, MD, took a deep breath as he stood on the Berg Hall stage and looked out across the crowd. It was made up of 150 of his Stanford Medicine peers, some of them longtime mentors and collaborators. Though he is accustomed to speaking before much larger crowds, this time was different. The surgeon and urologist was about to share something profoundly personal with a group of physicians, a human subset often preconditioned to wear the same steely veneer he had long worn. Those reflexive instincts, the ones that make a person hold their true feelings in tight, were doing a number on his sto ..read more

Three first-time mothers dressed in identical pink, floor-length hospital gowns and blue surgical masks sat in a small, windowless hospital conference room in rural Gujarat, a state of 60 million people on India's western coast, roughly half the size of California. The young women described the experience of having a child in the neonatal intensive care unit at this modern hospital located so far from their homes that they were staying in the mothers' onsite dormitory. One mom had been there for nearly two months. Speaking in Gujarati, the mothers shared worries about how their families ..read more

We all get moody -- it's part of human nature. But if you have people in your life afflicted with bipolar disorder, you quickly realize that not all moodiness is created equally. An estimated 4.4% of adults in the U.S. -- nearly 50 million people -- will be diagnosed with a mood disorder that falls into the bipolar classification.  While there are many medications to help these people find a sweet spot between their fluctuating moods -- from a manic state of high energy to an often paralyzingly depressive low -- those pharmacological interventions are riddled with adverse effects and can ..read more