Scope Blog

The goal of a decade-old program started by Stanford Medicine's Nilima Ragavan is to foster the sharing of lessons and evidence-based best practices between clinicians in the U.S. and India. Th...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/25/perinatal-health-stanford-india-gujarat/

An Ask Me Anything Q&A with Stanford Medicine's Sharon Chinthrahjah, and expert on all things allergy-related. The post Ask Me Anything: Everything to know about allergy season — and more ap...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/25/allergy-season-questions-answered/

Research is showing that advanced methods of genetic testing aren’t equally useful for everyone: They’re less accurate for non-white families, raising concerns about how historical gaps in wh...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/18/genetic-testing-dna-racial-inequity-birth/

Cases of patients who recovered from trauma after dreaming under surgical anesthesia spur Stanford Medicine researchers to investigate dreaming as therapy. The post Could anesthesia-induced dre...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/16/anesthesia-induced-dreams-trauma-recovery/

Some of the 17 million Americans afflicted with major depressive disorder each year may soon receive a surprising new prescription from their clinician: Have fun on a virtual reality device. Th...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/11/depression-virtual-reality-vr-headset/

A new test can detect the biological signature of Parkinson’s disease before symptoms arise. A Stanford Medicine neurologist explains why early diagnosis opens the door to better therapies. T...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/04/09/parkinsons-disease-biological-definition-stanford/

Often misunderstood and undertreated, bipolar disorder has received close attention from Stanford Medicine clinicians and researchers for more than 30 years. The post Serious talk about moods w...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/03/28/mental-health-mood-disorders-bipolar-po-wang/

Researchers who study long COVID say its debilitating symptoms are often misdiagnosed by clinicians and dismissed by employers or loved ones because so little is known about the new syndrome. T...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/03/27/long-covid-symptoms-sufferers-misdiagnosed/

Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction. The post Large language models i...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/03/26/ai-large-language-models-doctors-patients/

Graduating medical students go through an unusual springtime ritual known as Match Day to find out where they’ll continue their training. Here’s everything you wanted to know about the big da...

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/03/13/match-day-medical-school-residency/