Tag: stanford university school of medicine
Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions
Children with autism were able to improve their social skills by using a smartphone app paired with Google Glass to help them understand the...
Common skin cancer can signal increased risk of other cancers
People who develop abnormally frequent cases of a skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma appear to be at significantly increased risk for the...
Gene panel screens dozens of genes for cancer-associated mutations
As many as 10 percent of women with a personal or family history of breast or ovarian cancer have at least one genetic mutation...
Blood test could provide rapid, accurate method of detecting solid cancers
A blood sample could one day be enough to diagnose many types of solid cancers, or to monitor the amount of cancer in a...
Form of epilepsy in sea lions similar to that in humans
California sea lions exposed to a toxin in algae develop a form of epilepsy that is similar to one in humans, according to a...
Claim that raw milk reduces lactose intolerance doesn’t pass smell test
Some sour news for lactose-intolerant people who hoped that raw milk might prove easier to stomach than pasteurized milk: A pilot study from the...
Smartphones become ‘eye-phones’ with low-cost devices
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed two inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front...
Technique allows for radiation-free detection of tumors
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed a way to scan young cancer patients’ bodies for tumors without exposing...
Glimpsing the health of most-extreme runners
For some runners, a marathon is not enough. Participation in so-called ultramarathons — defined as any distance beyond the standard 26.2-mile marathon — has grown...
Staph can lurk deep within nose
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have revealed that formerly overlooked sites deep inside the nose may be reservoirs for Staphylococcus aureus, a major bacterial...
