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• Symposium, Patient Reunion Will Help Mark 40 Years of Pioneering Work in Heart Transplantation at Stanford

  - 2008-10-15

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The afternoon Elizabeth Craze was born 26 years ago, her parents held their breath. "She is perfect," the doctor told them. But within four months, Elizabeth, like the four siblings before her, would be diagnosed with heart failure. Three had already died in infancy. The...

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• Creative Thinking Nets Stanford Researchers Two NIH Pioneer Awards, Three New Innovator Awards

  - 2008-09-22

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Two scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine who've sussed out ways to see what's usually hidden are winners of this year's NIH Director's Pioneer Awards--the National Institutes of Health's most prestigious award for creative thinkers. Secrets held within a living being's brain and a...

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• Understanding Innovation Processes: HPI and Stanford School of Engineering Form Research Alliance

  - 2008-08-19

  Institutions Will Study What Makes Design Thinking Methodology Successful POTSDAM, Germany & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Stanford University and the Hasso-Plattner-Institute HPI today announced a research partnership in which they will investigate the process of innovation using Design Thinking, a methodology that melds an end-user focus with multidisciplinary collaboration...

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• CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz, Leading Economists, and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security

  - 2008-04-29

  STANFORD, Calif. -- California Healthcare Institute:[TABLE OMITTED] Members of the Media, RSVP: < Tiffany Taluban < (858) 405-0807 ...

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• CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz, Leading Economists, and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security

  - 2008-04-25

  STANFORD, Calif. -- CHI:[TABLE OMITTED] George P. Shultz, professor of economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. The previous year, he chaired President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory...

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• Clues to Ancestral Origin of Placenta Emerge in Stanford Study

  - 2008-04-14

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered the first clues about the ancient origins of a mother's intricate lifeline to her unborn baby, the placenta, which delivers oxygen and nutrients critical to the baby's health. The evidence suggests the placenta of humans and...

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• The Monthly interview: Philip Zimbardo

  - 2007-12-01

  In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, then a professor of psychology at Stanford University, devised one of the most famous psychological experiments of the twentieth century. In what is known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, he assigned twenty-four young men roles as prisoners and guards, and observed the group dynamics that ensued....

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• Nobel laureate, Portola Valley resident dies at 89

  - 2007-10-27

  Nobel Prize winner Arthur Kornberg, a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering honored for the test-tube synthesis of DNA, died Friday of respiratory failure at Stanford Hospital. He was 89. "It's really a passing of a generation," said Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of...

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• Ralph Paffenbarger, Stanford Exercise Authority, Dies at 84

  - 2007-07-13

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., MD, DrPH, an internationally known exercise authority and professor emeritus of health research and policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine, died peacefully at his home in Sante Fe, N.M., on July 9, following a long battle with congestive heart disease. He...

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• Common Preterm Labor Drug Has More Side Effects Than Alternative, Finds Study from Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford

  - 2007-06-29

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The drug most commonly used to arrest preterm labor, magnesium sulfate, is more likely than another common treatment to cause mild to serious side effects in pregnant women, according to a study from researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine. Their findings...

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