Mary Hawn appointed new chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery Batuhan Balci March 9, 2015 0 Comments Starting July 1st 2015, Mary Hawn, the current director of gastrointestinal surgery and vice chair for quality and clinical effectiveness at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will be serving as... Read More »
Freshman dorms participate in PHEbruary Sevde Kaldiroglu February 19, 2015 0 Comments The month of February is celebrated in the form of PHEbruary, a series of events put on by Peer Health Educators (PHEs) in the freshmen dorms on campus. Starting on the first day of February, many... Read More »
Vaden warns of possible flu spike Elizabeth Wallace January 20, 2015 0 Comments Though Vaden Health Center has been seeing cases of influenza for several months now, national and state trends are showing a potential spike in the virus this month. Both local and federal health... Read More »
Prevention Research Center to launch Wellness Living Laboratory Alexandra Bourdillon November 3, 2014 0 Comments The Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) received $10 million in funding to launch the Wellness Living Laboratory, a project that will take a scientific approach to wellness. Read More »
Big Data in BioMedicine conference focuses on the implications of data for world health Alexis Garduno May 27, 2014 0 Comments At the School of Medicine’s Big Data in BioMedicine Conference last week, academic and industry leaders came together to speak about the role of big data analysis in tackling unanswered questions... Read More »
Invasive species of mosquitoes found in Santa Clara County Kylie Jue May 19, 2014 1 Comment On May 5, the Santa Clara County Vector Control District began a campaign to notify Palo Alto residents of a species of small, invasive mosquitoes that are new to the area. Read More »
Professor of Medicine Spiegel talks about medical hypnosis, receiving the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award Angelique Dakkak April 27, 2014 0 Comments Professor of Medicine David Spiegel was recently named as the 2014 recipient of the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in recognition of his research on stress and health. The Daily sat down with... Read More »
Vaden launches new birth control peer counseling service Kylie Jue April 2, 2014 0 Comments Earlier this year, the Vaden Health Center launched a new Birth Control Peer Educators (BCE) program that gives students the chance to act as peer counselors on the topic of birth control. Read More »