http://news.stanford.edu Latest Health news headlines from Stanford University. Copyright (C) Stanford University en-us http://news.stanford.edu/images/srdot.gif http://news.stanford.edu http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/may/campaign.html http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/may/campaign.html President John Hennessy on Monday announced the launch of a $1 billion campaign to transform health care by investing in research, teaching and patient care. Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/micro-device-implant-022212.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/micro-device-implant-022212.html For 50 years, scientists searched for the secret to making tiny implantable devices that could travel through the bloodstream. Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated just such a device. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/january/butte.html http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/january/butte.html Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, say investigators at the School of Medicine who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad gender difference. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/health_insurance_no_guarantee_for_diabetes_care_in_developing_countries_20120111/ http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/health_insurance_no_guarantee_for_diabetes_care_in_developing_countries_20120111/ With little chance of complete diabetes prevention, programs and policies must be established to care for those who develop the disease. If not, illnesses will increase along with the costs of care. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/november/modeling-protein-folding-111811.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/november/modeling-protein-folding-111811.html Stanford researchers, who made impossible protein-folding simulations routine with Folding@home, bring the technology to supercomputing. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/november/conjoined-1102.html http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/november/conjoined-1102.html Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, twins who were born conjoined at the chest and abdomen, are separate little girls following a 10-hour surgery on Nov. 1 at Packard Children's Hospital. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/opensim-motion-software-102711.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/opensim-motion-software-102711.html In a new exhibit at The Leonardo, a science and technology museum in Salt Lake City, a team of Stanford engineers is demonstrating an open source software package called OpenSim that accurately models human movement. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/viral-storm-prediction-102511.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/viral-storm-prediction-102511.html Prevention rather than just treatment should define future interactions between humans and deadly viruses, argues Stanford visiting human biology Professor Nathan Wolfe in his new book, The Viral Storm. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PDT http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/september/geron.html http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/september/geron.html Stanford and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center have enrolled the fourth participant in the nation’s first trial of human embryonic stem cells. Stanford neurosurgeon Gary Steinberg implanted the cells. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/september/fingertip-size-microscope-091611.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/september/fingertip-size-microscope-091611.html "You could put 10 of these in your pocket and take them out to the field," says one of the researchers involved in the project. Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PDT