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Would you volunteer to be Injected with COVID-19? In the dark early weeks of the pandemic, thousands of young people from all over the world volunteered to be injected with COVID, in order to speed up vaccine trials. They formed an organization called 1Day Sooner, believing that speeding a vaccine up by even one day would save so many lives that it was worth risking their own. This event features a discussion with four of those volunteers who will describe how and why they made this difficult choice. Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer, The New Yorker, will moderate the panel discussion. This event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
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The COVID-19 global pandemic is not the first event –good or bad -- to be shared by the entire world, but in this age of technology and social connection when information travels the earth at lightning speed, we are all living the full impact of this collective experience, in real time. The countless individual tragedies of the virus come together in a cumulative and mutual loss to which few of us are immune. In this Q&A, Dr. Debra Kaysen, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with the Public Mental Health & Population Sciences Division, helps us better understand our communal grief and how to deal with the societal stress of COVID-19. Dr. Kaysen specializes in the treatment of trauma and PTSD and is the President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).
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Featured Stories
Three million older adults -- individuals age 65 and older -- are treated in emergency departments across the United States each year for fall injuries. The physical, psychological and financial consequences of falling can be staggering. Fortunately, there are many practical steps that individuals can take to reduce their risk of falling.
Read on to learn more.
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To gain insights into human health and disease, an engineer perfects ways to grow cells into miniature mimics of organs and tissues and collaborates with doctors to put them to work.
Read more in Stanford Medicine magazine here.
Image courtesy of Annika Enejder, Kelsea Hubka and Bauer LeSavage.
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Since 2014, the Stanford Biosciences Grant Writing Academy has supported hundreds of graduate students and postdocs writing research proposals. According to a study published in PLOS ONE, participants in its Autumn Proposal Bootcamp were nearly twice as likely to receive funding than non-participants.
The Grant Writing Academy was honored with an Innovations in Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges in 2016.
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Announcement
On January 12, radiologists in SHC’s Minimally Invasive MR Interventional Center (MIMRIC) celebrated their 100th treatment of essential tremor with focused ultrasound. The procedure marks a major milestone for the team who began offering the specialized treatment in 2017.
There are only a handful of medical centers around the world that have access to this minimally invasive technology. A group of Stanford’s radiologists received specialized training in MR imaging and guided procedures and work part of a multidisciplinary team with specialists from neurosurgery, oncology, orthopedic surgery, gynecology, and urology.
Read on to learn more about MIMRIC.
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Stanford Medicine is developing a plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to its workforce. Read on to learn more about the process and plan.
A recording of the Dec. 22 COVID-19 Information Session is now available. During the event, our Stanford Medicine leaders discussed our revised vaccine distribution plan, and what to expect over the next few weeks, including details on our shipment of the Moderna vaccine.
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Stanford Medicine accepts hundreds of patient transfers to relieve regional hospitals during pandemic
The transfers occurred as part of a mutual aid agreement among local and regional hospitals as COVID-19 cases surged.
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5 Questions: Kevin Schulman on encouraging COVID-19 vaccination in a politically polarized country
COVID-19 vaccination rates must reach 80% to achieve herd immunity, but only about 60% of Americans are willing to be vaccinated, according to the Pew Research Center. Stanford physician and economist Kevin Schulman suggests marketing tactics to boost compliance.
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COVID-19 severity affected by proportion of antibodies targeting crucial viral protein, study finds
A comprehensive study of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 associates mild disease with comparatively high levels of antibodies that target the viral spike protein. But all antibodies wane within months.
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County supervisor honors two faculty members for work during COVID-19 pandemic
Infectious disease expert Yvonne Maldonado and psychiatrist Steven Adelsheim were awarded service medals by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian.
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Purifying widely used antibiotic could reduce risk it poses to hearing, study finds
Scientists have discovered a simple method of reformulating gentamicin, a commonly used and highly effective antibiotic, that could reduce the risk it poses of causing deafness.
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Stanford scientists assemble human nerve circuit driving voluntary movement
A Stanford Medicine team used human stem cells to assemble a working nerve circuit connecting brain tissue to muscle tissue. The research could enable scientists to better understand neurological disorders that affect movement.
