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Stanford Hospital does nation’s first drive-through pandemic exercise
Jun 13, 2009 |
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A couple of months ago, during the swine flu scare, Stanford Hospital & Clinics had a preview of what a real pandemic might look like: Hundreds of people, fearing they might be sick with the H1N1 virus, showed ...
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New criteria to project preemies' time in hospital, says researcher
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new way to estimate when the tiniest preemies -- babies born months early -- will go home from the hospital.
Probiotics help gastric-bypass patients lose weight more quickly, study shows
Jul 13, 2009 |
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New research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics suggests that the use of a dietary supplement after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery can help obese patients to more quickly lose ...
Metabolic syndrome can help identify diabetes risk in Aboriginal Canadians
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Metabolic syndrome is the clustering of risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease, such as obesity, high cholesterol, high glucose and hypertension. Aboriginal Canadians have a 3-5 times higher prevalence of ...
Study expands window for effective stroke treatment
May 28, 2009 |
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Once symptoms start, there's only a tiny window of time for stroke victims to get life-saving treatment. Now, research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has cracked that window open a bit wider.
Major study of opiate use in children's hospitals provides simple steps to alleviate harm
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling drugs known as opiates. The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. Constipation, for instance, ...
New test for mysterious metabolic diseases developed at Stanford/Packard
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a much-needed way to monitor and find treatments for a mysterious and devastating group of metabolic diseases that arise from mutations in cells' fuel-burning ...
Immune system 'atlas' will speed detection of kidney transplant
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have devised a new way to decode the immune signals that cause slow, chronic rejection of all transplanted kidneys. They've created ...
Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
Dec 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
Researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cells
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ.
McTriage: Hospitals use drive-thrus for swine flu
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fast-food places have them. Banks and pharmacies do, too. Now hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat a swelling tide of swine flu patients.
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