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Cook’s family recipe lifts hospital employees’ spirits during COVID
In the early days of COVID-19, Stanford Hospital cook Hilda Fabian could look in her customers' eyes and tell that the health crisis was taking a toll. She prides herself on bringing joy to those she...
View ArticleNew findings expand hopes for a stem cell cancer ‘vaccine’
One perk of being an 'experienced' science writer is the opportunity to follow-up on promising research over the years. I love charting the course of scientific research from the first gleam in a...
View ArticleFrom Oaxaca to Stanford, via blueberry farms in the Northwest
Last summer, incoming Stanford medical student Gianna (pronounced "Yana") Nino-Tapias sent out a tweet about blueberry pickers' wages. Featuring a photo of two buckets brimming with berries, the tweet...
View ArticleComputer simulation may yield new COVID-19 drug
A Stanford eye expert and his colleagues have unearthed an idle drug that could possibly be repurposed to stave off SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The drug works not by disabling...
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Neuroscientist’s book traverses the extremes of human behavior
Stanford bioengineer and neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a pioneer in developing game-changing technologies that enable scientists to probe the brain's circuitry in a methodical search for...
View ArticleUnderstanding the risks of seizure-stopping drugs in pregnancy
For women with epilepsy, pregnancy has historically been quite fraught. In generations past, epilepsy patients were discouraged from getting pregnant, as uncontrolled seizures can harm both mother and...
View ArticleFinding redemption through criminal justice reform
When he was a young boy, Shaka Senghor did well in school and dreamed of becoming a doctor. But at 13, he ran away from home to escape abuse and ended up involved in the illegal drug trade. At 19, he...
View ArticleAttitude toward mistakes — and lack of self-care — harm physicians’ well-being
Physicians experience burnout more than most workers, but the problem isn't inherent to the medical profession, according to Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Mickey Trockel, MD, PhD. Rather, it's the...
View ArticleUniversal hepatitis B screenings can save lives and cut costs, study says
Stanford researchers have found that screening all adults in the United States one time for hepatitis B could save as many as 68,000 lives, along with trillions of dollars in healthcare costs over the...
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Pharmacy team worked pit-crew style to roll out COVID-19 vaccines
Back in the fall of 2020, even before the Stanford pharmacy team learned which COVID-19 vaccines would hit the market first, they were already preparing for greatest impact. "In pharmacy, our comfort...
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