Archive for May, 2007
The Risks and Benefits of Menopausal Hormone Therapy in Younger and Older Women
Presented by: Marcia Stefanick, Ph.D.
Professor, Research, Stanford Prevention Research Center
November 16, 2006
Lecture Overview:
In one of the most stunning turnarounds in modern health care, it is no longer considered appropriate to give hormones to women to replace estrogen lost in the natural process of aging, i.e., at the time of menopause. According to Dr. Marcia Stefanick […]
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease: The Silent Killer
Presented by: Ronald L. Dalman, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
September 26, 2007
Lecture Overview:
There has been considerable interest recently in public education and screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) after a front page Wall Street Journal article about it received the Pulitzer Prize for Health Reporting a few years ago. There are 30,000 deaths in […]
Alzheimer’s Disease and Research Directions for Prevention
Presented by: J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center and Alzheimer’s Center
may 30, 2007
Lecture Overview:
In the early 20th century, it was first discovered in post-mortem studies that patients with Alzheimer’s disease had plaques in their brain cortex and neurofibrillary tangles that appeared as threads in neurons. These substances disturb the […]
Familial Mood Disorders
Presented by: Natalie L. Rasgon, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University Medical Center
June 14, 2007
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Lecture Overview:
Dr. Rasgon’s lecture offered a well-wrought primer on the topic of mood disorders in general, and the familial variety in particular, with an emphasis […]
