Media Coverage
Sep 5 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A virtual-reality hook-up in an experiment designed to freak people out, the better to understand vision-induced fear.
Aug 29 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
New artificial intelligence software that uses positron emission tomography (PET) scans to predict whether at-risk patients will develop Alzheimer’s within two years.
Aug 26 2017 | TrendinTech
Blindness is a condition that affects millions of people across the globe. It’s not a nice condition and one that scientists have battled with for a long time to try and find some kind of cure or effective form of treatment. But so far, nothing seems to be that effective.
Aug 25 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Ron Davis, PhD, calls chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME/CFS) the “last major disease about which we know almost nothing.”
Aug 23 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
When it comes to health, Americans cherish their ability to see above all else – fearing loss of sight more than loss of hearing, speech or memory.
Aug 23 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Smoking is risky. But frankly, so is bicycling, driving in a car and eating sugary snacks. Our understanding of how risky, however, is hugely important, yet many of us struggle to wrap our minds around risk.
Aug 22 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
In a nationally representative sample of older adults in the United States, Stanford researchers found a strong relationship between visual impairment and cognitive decline.
Aug 21 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Marion Buckwalter: “We must affect change in overall attitudes about women with power”
Aug 21 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
How to maintain patient privacy while also accumulating and analyzing the multitudes of DNA sequences necessary to determine which genetic mutations, or variants, are associated with the development of particular diseases.
Aug 17 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Jennifer Kranz’s tumor tissue was “the key tool" in Michelle Monje work to understand figuring an aggressive form of a deadly childhood cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma,an incurable brain tumor.
