Tag Archive | Video
Meet Your Roommates at Our New Hospital
The first patients at our new Center for Care and Discovery will move in on February 23, but they’ll have some roommates already. At the PLOS Public Health Perspectives blog, Beth Skwarecki writes about environmental microbiologist Jack Gilbert’s Hospital Microbiome Project to track the microbes growing in our new hospital: A microbial community has to […]
Dr. FAQ: Who Pays When Patients Leave Against Medical Advice?
There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them. Insurance companies know this. Patients who walk out may know this. But many physicians, according to a study published in […]
Dr. FAQ: When Baby, Mom and Doctor Should Wait
By Dianna Douglas A pregnancy is considered at “term” after 37 weeks. But there are critical growth stages that come next–a baby’s lungs, brain, and liver develop in the last few weeks in the womb. Women in the United States are often induced before the baby has fully gestated, which leads to a host of […]
Machine Gunning the Cell’s Legos
Actin is the Lego of the cell. The small proteins can be assembled into many different forms for a wide variety of uses: serving as a scaffold to keep the cell’s shape, a railroad for shipping packages, or a powerful motor to propel the cell or tear it in half. But actin itself is a […]
Linkage 8/26: Abortion Access, Bronchial Thermoplasty & Facebook
Since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, abortion has been a woman’s legal right (with ever-changing state-specific restrictions) in the United States. But one factor often trumps the legal status of abortion: access. Though abortion training is required for medical residents studying to become obstetrician-gynecologists, physicians are not required to perform the procedure or […]
Sexual Identity, Health, and Stigma in India
Last November, a barrier was broken in the prolific Bollywood film industry of India. A film called Dunno Y featured the first on-screen male-male kiss – a provocative scene in a country that only the year before repealed a law making homosexuality illegal. Many tagged the film as India’s version of Brokeback Mountain, a controversial […]
Medical Ethics Summer School
It has been a couple months since the end of the spring quarter, and the with it the end of many of the Medical Center’s weekly lecture series. But a recent batch of videos posted to the website of the MacLean Center for Medical Ethics brought a whiff of the school year to the dog […]
The New Landscape of Hepatitis C
The hepatitis C virus has always been an unusual disease. Largely symptom-free in its early stages, many people are unaware for many years that they have contracted the virus. But if left untreated, hepatitis C can eventually cause severe liver damage that may necessitate an organ transplant. Until recently, physicians have had only limited success […]
Medical Simulation: Beyond Training Dummies
Anyone with a video game console at home can simulate a variety of occupations: airplane pilot, race car driver, baseball player, Old West zombie hunter. As technology improves, the experience that can be created for these tasks grows ever more accurate and immersive, causing some experts to wonder whether simulation can be used for actual […]
The Wandering Cells of Migraine Aura
Many people who suffer from regular migraines experience a kind of prelude to their attack, known as a migraine aura. Less than an hour before the headache begins, the person experiences a sensory or motor disturbance, such as flickering shapes and a blind spot, or disturbances of a motor or language nature. In 1941, a […]
