Media Coverage
Aug 16 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Seven years into the civil war, Syrian children and adolescents in Lebanon still have trauma-related symptoms. A large proportion of teenagers across all settlements, expressed anxiety and depression symptoms.
Aug 16 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Stanford researchers have used a revolutionary 3-D culture technique to nurse a very slowly developing set of brain cells known as astrocytes to maturity in laboratory glassware.
Aug 16 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Researchers examined the most commonly used non-pharmaceutical pain management therapies following knee replacement surgery to see if they did indeed work to reduced pain while the patient was in the hospital. They found that acupuncture and electrotherapy could reduce and delay opioid use.
Aug 11 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Writing recently in The Lancet, Stanford’s Keith Humphreys, PhD, shines a spotlight on the expanding globalization of the opioid epidemic. He urges leaders in other nations to learn from the United States’ mistakes and take immediate action to prevent an international crisis.
Aug 10 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
If you’re a scientist who wants to do something to help kids with cerebral palsy, your first strategy probably isn’t to launch an internet contest with freaky skeleton videos, but that is more or less what Łukasz Kidziński, PhD, did.
Aug 7 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Legal sales of recreational marijuana will start in January, following the passage of Proposition 64 last November. As businesses gear up to hit the market, some health leaders are concerned about the branding and advertising of marijuana products that may appeal to kids and encourage use.
Aug 7 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
"No matter what anyone says to you, you can be just as good at science, you might learn things differently, or at a different pace, but you can get there." - Ciara D. Harraher, MD, MPH
Aug 2 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
The U.S. opioid epidemic is making headline news, and with all the press coverage, it’s tempting to think the problem is finally getting the attention it needs. Yet, as a recent story explains, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Aug 2 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A new study, conducted by Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and inventor Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, and colleagues, suggests that key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from two kinds of neurons in a portion of the forebrain.
Jul 31 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A new study led by Stanford chronic fatigue syndrome expert Jose Montoya, MD, has linked chronic fatigue syndrome to variations in 17 immune-system signaling proteins, or cytokines, whose concentrations in the blood correlate with the disease’s severity.
