http://med.stanford.eduNews from Stanford University School of MedicineTue, 08 Jul 2008 19:48:58 PDTTue, 08 Jul 2008 19:48:58 PDThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/norris-0709.htmlRobert Norris, MD, saw the need for emergency medical care in Iraq was urgent, so he traveled to that war-torn country with a team of emergency medicine experts to build a training program.1215570501605Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/alzheimers-0709.htmlResearchers have used social-networking concepts borrowed from Facebook to analyze the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, and found their brains were less well-connected than those without the disorder.1215570548149Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/ivf-0709.htmlMedical school researchers have identified a method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment will become pregnant. 1215570592126Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/cirm-0709.htmlSchool of Medicine researchers received about $5.6 million on June 27 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in awards designed to support the creation of new pluripotent human stem cell lines.1215570629084Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/interns-0709.htmlDozens of bright high school students are on the medical school campus this summer, learning to do real biomedical research in the labs of top scientists, under the Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program.1215571102316Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/myc-0709.htmlSchool of Medicine researchers have found that lowering levels of one cancer signaling molecule below a threshold can cause cancer cells to revert to normal.1215571157424Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/kidney-0709.htmlA molecule that kills kidney cancer cells, found by School of Medicine researchers, could lead to a drug that spares patients from losing their kidney or succumbing to the disease. 1215571201430Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/mitchell-0709.html1215571245211Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/mcp-0709.html1215571286031Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/july/kidney.htmlKidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: removing the organ. But that could change, thanks to the discovery of a molecule that kills kidney cancer cells.1215462074004Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/july/IVF.htmlStanford researchers have identified a method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment will become pregnant.1214958511475Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/myc.htmlResearchers report that lowering levels of one cancer signal under a specific threshold reverses uncontrolled cell growth in mice.1214939783560Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/bloodcenter30.htmlOn July 2, Stanford Blood Center invites the public to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Palo Alto Mayor Larry Klein will kick off the festivities at noon.1214939018052Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/medcast/2008/armel_climate.htmlCarrie Armel, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, discusses how climate change and many of today's pressing public health issues have common cause in people's transportation habits and other behaviors. 1214861850417Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/CIRM.htmlStanford researchers received $5.6 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in awards designed to support new pluripotent human stem cell lines.1214605890586Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/alzheimers21.htmlUsing Facebook concepts, researchers determine that patients’ brains are less well-connected than the brains of people without the disorder.1214520853719Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/hiv-screen-0618.htmlPolicy experts have shown that routine AIDS screening for older adults would be a relatively cost-effective way to increase life expectancy and decrease disease transmission.1213752036168Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/ct-art-0618.htmlRadiologist-businessman Marc Ghysels, MD, recently described how he uses computer tomography scanning to assess artworks, at a kickoff meeting of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at Stanford. 1213752079338Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/commencement-0618.htmlNobel laureate Roger Kornberg spoke to the medical school's graduates about the importance of being advocates for basic research. 1213751998178Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/dake-0618.htmlMichael Dake, MD, a pioneer in the development of endovascular treatments for aortic pathologies, will return to Stanford in July as a professor and director of the cardiac catheterization and angioplasty laboratory. 1213752130471Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/fish-cells-0618.htmlTiny motions of molecules can shape whole cells and determine whether they race around or crawl, according to School of Medicine researchers who have used mathematics to model cell movement for the first time.1213752171951Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/brief-cooley-0618.html1213752217456Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/brief-cantor-0618.html1213752254617Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/brief-senate-0618.html1213752292413Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/mcp-0618.html1213752572102Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/HIV-screening.htmlPolicy experts have shown that routine AIDS screening for older adults would be a relatively cost-effective way to increase life expectancy and decrease disease transmission.1213719147977Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/june/commencement.htmlNobel laureate Roger Kornberg spoke to the medical school's graduates about the importance of being advocates for basic research.1213644995284Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/childbirth-0611.htmlA single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tears that occur in vaginal tissues in women during many births, researchers have found.1213149852698Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/grad-main-0611.htmlCommencement for the School of Medicine's Class of 2008 will be held June 14, marking 100 years since Stanford University signed an agreement in 1908 to acquire its first medical school program.1213147972793Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PSThttp://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/grad-martinez-0611.htmlIn his ongoing quest to figure out "how things work," Gilbert Martinez, a PhD graduate in biophysics, plans next to take his doctoral degree to the nation's capitol where he hopes to someday work in the halls of Congress.1213148077882Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PST