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In the works for more than a year, a new Caffe del Doge coffee shop will open in Palo Alto's downtown Caltrain station on Dec.

Washington, Nov 19 : A new study has revealed that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are at a modest risk of suffering complications or having caesarean deliveries.

Main Category: Multiple Sclerosis Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Pregnancy / Obstetrics ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant.

A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that breast cancer patients under 40 years old who undergo fertility preservation do not face a significant delay in the treatment of their disease when their care is coordinated in a timely fashion.

Tom Campbell, Silicon Valley's onetime Golden Boy, is still, well, golden. In a San Jose State University poll released Monday, Campbell, a former Silicon Valley congressman seeking the GOP nomination for governor, crushed his competition - former eBay chief Meg Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a valley entrepreneur.

STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby says the school is close to completing a contract extension with football coach Jim Harbaugh.

Life as they knew it had stopped. A wealthy, once-mighty empire had been riven with smallpox, civil unrest, a royal war of succession and finally foreign conquest.

A bomb-defusing robot is a lonely 15-year-old sniper's best friend. An older teen drives a bus for his dead mother's cancer support group.

Catheter-directed therapy should be considered a first-line treatment option for massive blood clots in the lungs, according to study of nearly 600 patients in Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology FAIRFAX, Va.-Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis-an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted ...

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on.

Four decades after publication of "The Population Bomb," professor of ecology Paul Ehrlich remains an influential player on the environmental scene.

A baby is found floating in a basket on a Northern California river in the 1930s.

Energy sustainability on campus is one of several topics on the agenda today when the Faculty Senate convenes its third meeting of autumn quarter.

Sponsored by the art and art history department, "Pedagogy for the Impressed" brought together, from left, visiting ballerina and dance lecturer Muriel Maffre, visiting director Lin Hixson, painter and art and art history professor Xiaoze Xie, choreographer and guest lecturer Ralph Lemon, and visiting director Matthew Gouhlish to discuss the ...

In response to a recent spate of phony emails, Stanford's Information Technology Services staff would like to remind everyone that the university will never ask faculty, staff or students to reveal their usernames or passwords in an email.

E-mail: pollack1@stanford.edu Received 25 March 2009; Revised 29 July 2009; Accepted 27 August 2009; Published online 2 November 2009.

A new executive director and 13 fellows join the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity this academic year.

Outside neurology and his family, Sean Mackey doesn't have many hobbies. The one exception is his monstrous flat-screen television and large film collection.

A pair of gamma-ray photons - one possessed of a million times the energy of the other - arrived at virtually the same instant at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, where the Large Area Telescope, for which Stanford's Peter Michelson is principal investigator, detected them after a 7.3 billion year race across the universe.

There is no sure thing in Pac-10 women's volleyball and Stanford can attest to that after losing twice in its first seven conference matches.