S T A N F O R D M E D I C I N E

Winter 1999/2000

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On the Cover

Deep Brain Stimulation: Healing Neurological Disorders. 

Cover illustration by San Francisco-based artist Jeffrey Decoster.

Stanford Medicine, published quarterly by Stanford University Medical Center, aims to keep readers informed about the education, research, clinical care and other goings on at the Medical Center.

 

Plotting for Clotting 

Stanford researchers are confident their gene therapy technique will help stanch the uncontrolled bleeding of hemophilia.



The Pope of Toxoplasmosis

Jack Remington has written the book on toxoplasmosis. Along the way, he has worked unrelentingly to educate the public about the often misunderstood infectious disease.



Television Hosts

This summer, Stanford invited a TV documentary crew to move in for a month.



Moving with the Current

A current of electricity directed deep in the brain of a person with Parkinson's disease has the power to restore fluidity of motion and erase tremors.

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