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Top honor to cardiologist for advancing heart transplant medicine
How do you keep a heart-transplant recipient alive and healthy for the long term? That's been the focus of Sharon Hunt's medical career.
To prevent skin cancer: Vigilant watch — plus sunscreen
Kelly Bathgate’s mother was vigilant. She had three daughters, all fair-haired and fair-skinned, and the family spent several years living in Hawaii and the Philippines.
Interpreters connect patients and providers
Thousands of community members benefit from the interpreter services each year at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital & Clinic each year.
Study debunks idea that foreign health aid rife with waste
Stanford researchers say there are flaws in a 2010 study that concluded about half the money given to international governments for health-care services isn't used as intended.
Medical center recognized for outstanding 'green' practices
Stanford University Medical Center's long list of green initiatives has been awarded a special honor by the health-care industry's leader in environmentally responsible operations.
Skin cancer screening to be offered June 2 in Redwood City
Free skin cancer screenings will be provided from 8 a.m. to noon June 2 in the dermatology clinic at the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City.
Deisseroth, Garcia, Tibshirani named to National Academy of Sciences
Three School of Medicine faculty members have been named as new members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bronte-Stewart, Brooks, Sakamoto named to endowed chairs
Three medical school faculty members -- Helen Bronte-Stewart, James Brooks and Kathleen Sakamoto -- were recently named to endowed professorships.
Deisseroth wins four awards for seminal work on optogenetics
Over the last seven months Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, has received several major awards recognizing his seminal work in the development and application of optogenetics.
Top honorees announced for med student research symposium
Medical students exhibited nearly 50 poster presentations May 3 at the 29th annual Medical Student Research Symposium at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge.
MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds
An anonymous reader writes "MIT researchers have developed a highly articulated robotic manipulator based on soft materials that can harden to reposition the device. The technique is known as jamming, and it relies on pouches filled with granular material like coffee grounds; when air is removed from the pouches, they become rigid. The researchers combined jamming actuators with cables to build a manipulator resembling an elephant trunk. They say the device is low-cost, capable of grasping a variety of objects, and can remain in a hardened state for extended periods of time using little energy."
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