Prions are notoriously dastardly — after all, these infectious proteins are the cause of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But researchers have been turning …
Author: Rosanne Spector
The power and limits of zeroing in: Stanford Medicine magazine on diagnostics
Could my toilet save my life some day? Or could my bra? When professor and chair of radiology Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, met with me …
DNA dethroned? Evidence mounts for evolutionary material that’s not genetic
Yeah, DNA, you’re pretty great. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Who hasn’t heard that you hold the blueprint for life, the …
Strive, thrive and take five: Stanford Medicine magazine on the science of well-being
Feeling good? If so, that's fantastic - and also very mysterious, as I've learned while editing the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine. The issue …
The secret sauce for drug development success: Stanford’s Daria Mochly-Rosen at TEDMED
“I want you to imagine that you’re recovering from a heart attack. You’re at home thinking about the large scar on your heart,” said Daria …
A faster way to find drugs to target some of the body’s key catalysts
For more than a decade, some medical researchers have been eyeing an enzyme that ratchets up damage to the heart during a heart attack. They’ve …
Ties that heal: Stanford Medicine magazine examines relationships
Talk about pressure. Ron Davis, PhD, has built a career solving biochemical puzzles — and now his son is desperately ill due to a biochemical …
Precision health: a special report from Stanford Medicine magazine
In the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, you’ll read how Stanford researchers and clinicians are pursuing a vision they call precision health. What is precision …
Paul Kalanithi’s book will probably make you cry
Just over a year ago, I received a first draft of an article for Stanford Medicine magazine that electrified me. It was gorgeous. It was …
Stanford Medicine magazine tells why a healthy childhood matters
I've forgotten most of my childhood experiences - which is perfectly normal. But apparently my body remembers many of those experiences - and I learned …
This summer’s Stanford Medicine magazine shows some skin
Skin is superficial, literally. But it's also really deep, as I realized while editing the just-published issue of Stanford Medicine magazine. The summer issue features …
How would you like to die? Tell your doctor in a letter
Asking patients how they would like to die is not a question that comes easy to most doctors. Not surprisingly, most of us - doctors …
An inside look at drug development
How are drugs born? If you're really curious about this, you'd be fascinated by the weekly meetings of industry experts and academic researchers taking part …
Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who touched countless lives with his writing, dies at 37
Neurosurgeon and writer Paul Kalanithi, MD, passed away on Monday. A death is almost always sad, but for me this one is indescribably so - though if he were alive he …
Stanford Medicine magazine reports on time’s intersection with health
Why is it that giant tortoises typically live for 100 years but humans in the United States are lucky to make it past 80? And …
Stanford Medicine magazine’s big reads of 2014
This year’s most-read Stanford Medicine magazine stories were all about the heart, surgery and the immune system - the themes of this year’s three issues. …