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Street smarts Techy-savvy students developed hurricane response plans in SEAS competition Photo courtesy of Flickr user Angie M. Photography/Debris lingered just outside New Orleans in July 2006, almost a full year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. Imagine a powerful hurricane has wreaked havoc on the city of Cambridge, Mass. Thousands of residents are injured, […]
In-womb exposure to chemotherapy appears safe for babies In the most recent issue of Stanford Medicine, my colleague tells the story of Minnie Narth, a young woman who learned she had an aggressive form of lymphoma while she was pregnant. As detailed in the piece, there was surprise when Narth and her husband were presented with treatment options: […]
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Alumna Hopes Video Will Help Stem the Cholera Tide A new animated video about cholera—how people get infected, how it spreads, and how to treat it—is drawing attention from health workers around the globe. The video’s producer, Deborah Van Dyke, is a nurse practitioner in Vermont, a longtime aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, and […]
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Could pregnancy hormones be the key to rapid weight loss? As much as I would love to lose 20 pounds in six weeks, you won’t find me signing up for of one of the latest weight-loss fads called the “HCG diet.” The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin diet is one that requires that you inject yourself daily […]
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‘Explorers’ use uncertainty and specific area of brain Center for uncertainty “Explorers,” whose decision-making style embraces the possibilities of uncertainty, use specific parts (red) of the right rostrolateral prefrontal cortex to make calculations based on relative uncertainty. /Credit: Badre-Frank Lab/Brown University As they try to find the best reward among options, some people explore based on how uncertain […]
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Negotiating a Better Future – Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School … Negotiating a Better Future – Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School Date: February 2, 2012 … Measuring the Impact of Negotiation Skills on Health and Social Outcomes in Zambia? Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School Kathleen McGinn, […]
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Game on: Stanford develops new tool for teaching doctors to treat sepsis Jack was sinking fast, his vital signs registering alarming numbers. With every passing second, his doctor, Charles Prober, could see his patient being overwhelmed by sepsis, a deadly complication of infection that plagues hospitals worldwide. Stanford Hospital ICU chief Norman Rizk is a strong […]
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David Saloner Elected to Elite Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has recently announced the election of David Saloner, PhD, director of the Vascular Imaging Research Center at UCSF, to its College of Fellows. David Saloner, PhD Saloner, a professor in the departments of radiology and […]
Exploring roots of hunger, eating behaviors Study demonstrates that plasticity in the brain’s wiring controls feeding behavior Images courtesy of Dong Kong/ BIDMC/ The scientists found that a 24-hour period of fasting — which causes intense hunger in the control mice — was associated with a 67 percent increase in the number of dendritic spines (pictured) […]
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Tiny wonders: Small World in Motion competition winners bring microscopic activity to life … … Time lapse movie of transport of mitochondria in nerve cells of transgenic zebrafish with nerve cell membranes labeled in green and mitochondria labeled in blue. Yesterday, Nikon Instruments announced the winners of its inaugural Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition. From […]
