In rebuilding noses, age-old practice lives on
Sam Most has rebuilt nearly 1,000 severely damaged or destroyed noses over the past 15 years, in many cases using a surgical technique from ancient times commonly called the "forehead flap."
View ArticleChild life program helps hospitalized children handle stress, have fun
Child life specialists help young patients understand medical procedures, deal with fears and even play and have fun in the hospital.
View ArticleStudy finds possible new jet-lag treatment: Exposure to flashing light
Short flashes of light at night are more effective than using continuous light as therapy to prevent disruptions in people’s circadian rhythms, according to researchers.
View ArticleResearchers create compound that combats drug-resistant malaria parasites,...
Teasing apart subtle differences between a protein-shredding structure found in malaria parasites and in human cells enabled researchers to design a compound targeting the parasite without harming...
View ArticleStanford infectious disease expert Yvonne Maldonado, MD, on the Zika virus
The Zika virus has now been reported in 23 countries and territories in the Americas. Here in the United States, there have been about 50 cases of the virus in people who have traveled to infected...
View ArticleResearchers find marker identifying most basic form of blood stem cell
Nearly 30 years after the discovery of the hematopoietic stem cell, Stanford researchers have found a marker that allows them to study the version of these stem cells that continues to replicate.
View ArticlePeter Kim, Scott Delp elected to National Academy of Engineering
Biochemist Peter Kim and bioengineer Scott Delp have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Kim is now one of only 20 people who are members of all three national academies.
View Article5 Questions: Frank Longo on Alzheimer's, new neuroscience center
In a recent interview, neurologist Frank Longo discussed Alzheimer’s disease, recent research breakthroughs and the new Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, which he co-leads.
View ArticleInnovative oxygen therapy saves unborn baby with deadly heart defect
Prenatal oxygen treatment plus fast and aggressive action after birth helped a San Jose baby born at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford survive until he could undergo surgical repair of his...
View ArticleSix faculty elected fellows of AIMBE
The faculty members have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
View ArticleBlood test could transform tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment in developing...
A simple blood test that can accurately diagnose active tuberculosis could make it easier and cheaper to control a disease that kills 1.5 million people every year.
View ArticleStudy finds lower-back MRIs overused at VA
More than one-third of lower back MRIs conducted through the Department of Veterans Affairs are inappropriate, according to a new study.
View ArticleSymposium to explore gender differences in heart disease, treatment
Heart experts will convene Feb. 24 to discuss the role gender differences play in the research and treatment of heart disease.
View ArticleGlucose-guzzling immune cells may drive coronary artery disease
Excessive glucose uptake by inflammatory immune cells called macrophages, which reside in arterial plaques, may be behind coronary artery disease.
View ArticleStanford oncologist Holbrook Kohrt dies at 38
Kohrt, an assistant professor of oncology who suffered from hemophilia, was remembered for his passion for helping patients and advancing research in the use of the immune system to fight cancer.
View ArticleHarry Oberhelman, longtime Stanford surgeon known for wisdom, kindness, dies...
Oberhelman, who trained more than 160 surgical residents and served as chief of general surgery for decades, died Feb. 10.
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