Mariann Byerwalter ’82 elected as Stanford Health Care interim CEO Francesca Lupia November 11, 2015 0 Comments Mariann Byerwalter ’82, a longtime member and former chair of the Stanford Health Care Board of Directors, has been selected as interim president and CEO of Stanford Health Care (SHC). Byerwalter... Read More »
Q&A with Dr. Ian Crozier, ebola survivor and physician Fangzhou Liu October 21, 2015 0 Comments Three months after his evacuation from Sierra Leone, Dr. Ian Crozier found Ebola in his eye. This was after he was declared cured of the illness he had fought first as a volunteer doctor with the... Read More »
‘Farm Stand’ snack concession opens in Maples Pavilion Sandra Ortellado October 14, 2015 0 Comments The new Farm Stand snack concession, which opened last Wednesday in the basement of Maples Pavilion, allows Stanford athletes to refuel between classes, practice and lifts by making nutrition more... Read More »
Researchers modify hepatitus B virus for targeted drug delivery Jeremy Quach September 21, 2015 0 Comments Stanford researchers have redesigned the hepatitis B virus so that it is invisible to the immune system and can target certain cells without delivering an infectious payload. This report was published... Read More »
Stanford Ronald McDonald House announces major expansion Yuki Klotz-Burwell August 16, 2015 0 Comments Last year, the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford announced its plans for expansion, which will make it the largest Ronald McDonald branch in the world. Construction is underway and the Stanford house... Read More »
NIH funds new Alzheimer’s Research Center at School of Medicine Chetana Ramaiyer July 29, 2015 0 Comments Recently, the National Institute of Health (NIH) gave Stanford the final notice of a $7.3 million award to fund an Alzheimer’s Research Center, one of more than two dozen centers that have been... Read More »
Stanford study maps white shark behavior to understand attack risk factors Kalpana Gopalkrishnan July 29, 2015 0 Comments Although the number of white shark attacks per year in California has increased since the 60s, the risk of an individual being attacked by a white shark has decreased by 91 percent, according to a... Read More »
Researchers link Pandemrix flu vaccinations to narcolepsy Rishab Ramapriyan July 27, 2015 0 Comments An international team of researchers has found evidence that the GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix flu vaccination – which was widely distributed during the 2009 swine flu pandemic – may have caused rare... Read More »