Scope Blog

Biodesign program aims to ensure all trainees have a better understanding of health equity and appreciate the ways in which new technologies can widen or narrow the gaps in access to care. The ...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/11/05/biodesign-program-community-partnerships-health-equity/

Stanford Medicine researchers on the hunt for an elusive cardiac fibrosis drug were surprised when a malaria drug with ancient origins emerged as their top candidate. The post Old drug, new dis...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/10/30/cardiac-fibrosis-malaria-drug-ancient-origins/

Bryant Lin has taken his diagnosis of stage IV ‘never-smoker’ lung cancer, which disproportionately affects those of Asian descent, and turned it into a medical school course. He hopes the wo...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/10/16/never-smoker-lung-cancer-class-bryant-lin/

Custom designing proteins — a breakthrough recognized by the latest Nobel Prize in chemistry — could yield treatments that stop the worst of COVID-19 before it begins. The post Stanford Med...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/10/10/nobel-prize-proteins-covid-stanford-medicine/

Our researchers picked cells from all over the human body — cells of all shapes, sizes and abilities. From the brain to the heart to the intestines. The post The cells that stoke the imaginat...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/10/04/my-favorite-cell-stanford-medicine/

Vision damage from a complication of premature birth can be halted if it’s caught soon enough — and a California Perinatal Quality Care (CPQCC) and Stanford Medicine-led study shows the state...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/10/03/premature-birth-vision-complications-california/

Stanford Medicine bioethicist Tyler Tate found high levels of success in ballet, miming, acting, fencing and collegiate tennis. But his love of storytelling ultimately led him to medicine. The ...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/09/26/ballet-medicine-storytelling-bioethicist-philosophy/

Technological advancements allow diabetes patients to monitor their glucose levels remotely. Stanford Medicine researchers are refining similar tools for Parkinson’s patients and the providers ...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/09/20/parkinsons-remote-monitoring-tools/

As a new form of the viral disease spreads through Central Africa, prompting a global emergency declaration, Stanford Medicine infectious disease specialist Abraar Karan discusses how health syst...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/09/12/mpox-new-form-global-emergency/

A team of physician-scientists calculated how much greenhouse gas is being emitted by inhalers prescribed for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The post Is your asthma inhaler b...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/09/10/inhalers-greenhouse-gas-emissions-environment/