class="pagetitle"> Women’s Health
How to Mend a Broken Heart
Presented by: Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Women are twice as likely as men to develop depressive disorder
Depression is a risk factor for heart disease because it increases adrenaline and stress hormones
Physicians need to recognize the sometimes overlapping symptoms of depression and heart […]
Healing And Feeling: Stress, Support, and Breast Cancer
Presented by: David Spiegel, MD
Co-chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Integrative, or complementary, medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body and behavior and on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and […]
Read More..>>Preventing Osteoporosis-Related Fractures
Presented by: Rachel Wagman, MD
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Osteoporosis is a common condition affecting both men and women that is related to bone density
People with lower bone mass density are at higher risk for fracture, but other risk factors are involved as well
Age is not the automatic indication that bone […]
Implications Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research On Women’s Health
Presented by: Renee Reijo Pera, PhD
Director, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Unlike adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells have the potential to differentiate into any cell, including another stem cell
Understanding the process of how two pronuclei (egg and sperm) fuse to become an embryo is […]
