by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Apr 18, 2023 | Student Feature
Note: Any similarity in this text is due to the maintenance of the original paper’s style. All information credit goes to the authors of the study, as well as supplementary sources. Research Authors: Xiaotao Shen, Ryan Kellogg, Daniel J. Panyard, Nasim Bararpour,...
by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Apr 11, 2023 | Student Feature
Imagine a large group of patients in the same town enter the hospital with similar symptoms likely resulting from water contamination. What is the role of the clinician? While treating the patients’ symptoms is a primary concern, the clinician also needs to address...
by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Jan 26, 2023 | Student Feature
What is genome sequencing? Genome sequencing is a method in which the genetic makeup of a specific organism or cell type is determined. In sequencing the genome, a great deal of information can be determined such as the likelihood of getting certain diseases or...
by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Aug 19, 2022 | Health, Science, Student Feature, Technology
Electrolytes are often overlooked, yet crucial to maintaining homeostasis. A 2013 study published in The American Journal of Medicine found that 15% of the populace 55 years and older are unaware that they have at least one electrolyte imbalance [1]. These imbalances...
by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Feb 3, 2022 | Student Feature
The medical profession is closely associated with stethoscopes. For example, googling ‘doctor’ results in images of stethoscopes, or doctors wearing stethoscopes. A 2012 study showed that physicians are much more likely to be regarded as ‘trustworthy’ if they have a...
by Stanford Healthcare Innovation Team | Sep 23, 2021 | Student Feature
Summer workshop student, Vedant Madabushi, interviews Alexander Honakala, an immunologist and researcher at Stanford University Cancer is becoming a bigger threat to humanity – the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expects that by 2040, cancer diagnoses and...
