The eyes are often challenging for medical students to learn about, but there are some great educational resources out there, and I will describe one of them. This weekend, I was again volunteering at the free clinic (Arbor Free Clinic) in Menlo Park that my medical school operates along with it’s sister clinic in San […]
Nerd Heaven
I just returned from the Stanford Immunology Departmental Retreat in Asilomar, down in Monterrey on the California coast. What a retreat entails is researchers from across our department, including grad students, post-docs, and professors clinical and basic, present their research back-to-back. Over three days we see a few dozen 15-30 minute powerpoint presentations on what everyone has been working […]
Is Tobacco a Gateway Drug to Cocaine? What Molecular Biology Says and Doesn’t Say
In this week’s New England Journal, the Nobel-prize winner Eric Kandel and Denise Kandel publish a lecture in which they address the question of whether tobacco is a gateway drug for cocaine. They open the article by discussing the fact that, “…in 2012, among U.S. adults 18 to 34 years of age who had ever […]
