Iron man rebounds: With amputation averted, triathlete can now prepare for next big race Clifford Barnes heard the news in April: He might lose his left leg below the knee. The prospect was almost too much to bear for the 57-year-old triathlete, whose passion is competing in endurance races. A truck ran over triathlete Clifford […]

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Get sloshed, have sex? Wine-making has promoted a frenzy of indiscriminate mating in baker’s yeast, according to Stanford researchers Baker’s yeast, or S. cerevisiae, usually leads a relatively chaste existence – reproduction is accomplished primarily through asexual budding, with an occasional genetic boost from a spontaneous coupling between two of the one-celled organisms. But now […]

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Programs build support systems for local teens It was an ordinary afternoon at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School, when a cluster of freshmen gathered in the frosh quad for lunch. Then something remarkable happened. Shashank Joshi A wave of upperclassmen suddenly descended on the ninth-graders and proceeded to, well, be nice. They introduced themselves, asked […]

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Understanding a woman’s heart means knowing what to look for Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk and help her kids with […]

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Mock-ups help refine pre-construction plans for hospitals They’re the crash-test dummies of modern medicine: two sets of full-scale hospital rooms, including operating, recovery and patient rooms, built to the architectural specifications of the new Stanford Hospital and expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. They include every fixture — from overhead booms and monitors to electrical outlets and hand-sanitizer […]

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Population studies at heart of initiative to improve health Harry Greenberg In an era of personalized medicine, the idea of our collective health may seem a bit old-fashioned. But as our growing population ages and alarm bells sound about the appalling prevalence of serious health threats such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, physicians, […]

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In vino veritas: Promiscuous yeast hook up in wine-making vats, study shows Humans aren’t the only species that like to get busy with a glass of bubbly, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Turns out, the common baker’s yeast has indulged in a frenzy of amorous frolicking in the fermentation vats of […]

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A look at the most sleep-deprived and well-rested occupations A Time Moneyland story today takes a look at the Top 10 occupations that most deprive employees of sleep as well as jobs where workers are considered to be the most well-rested. The list was compiled by Sleepy’s mattress store using information gathered in the CDC’s National Health Survey. While it’s […]

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Research shows working out may benefit work life There’s more evidence today that regular exercise can offer benefits beyond an improved physique. Findings recently published in theJournal of Applied Psychology suggest that employees who engage in physical activity are less likely to experience deterioration in their mental health, including symptoms of burnout and depression. In the study (subscription […]

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Childhood leukemia patient on methotrexate shortage If, like me, you’ve been following news of the nation’s methotrexate shortage, you already know that severely curtailed supplies of this powerful chemotherapy drug are threatening the lives of children who need it for cancer treatment. (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’sMichael Link, MD, the president of the American Society of Clinical […]

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