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A day in the life of Stephanie Chao, a Stanford pediatric surgeon, researcher and mother trying to live in the moment and balance the chaos.
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Two scientists, who are married, team up in the lab to apply concepts from theoretical genetics to better understand health care fragmentation.
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Former and current Stanford medical students recommends several nonfiction books — as well as authors —that present science through a humanistic lens.
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Approximately 10 percent of potential blood donors are turned away because of low iron. Here, a Stanford Blood Center writer offers tips for boosting a person's count.
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Embracing trauma survivors: A psychiatrist’s story
Stanford psychiatrist Shaili Jain chose to focus on trauma survivors after learning what happened to her father and grandparents in the 1940s.
Eponym debate: The case for naming diseases after people
Should diseases be named after people? This first of a two-part series includes arguments to continue using medical eponyms.
Stanford technology helps advance CRISPR-based cancer therapy
A team led by Howard Chang has contributed key technology to enable new experimental cancer therapy that uses CRISPR to edit immune cells.
Is becoming a physician-scientist worth sacrificing work-life balance?
When he can't find time to fix the main light in his apartment, Stanford MD/PhD student Tim Keyes reconsiders the meaning of work-life balance.
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A difficult conversation: When your patient has an addiction
Mr. X’s fingers were dying, and several were already dead, casualties of a vascular disease. It would help if the patient quit smoking. He politely refused.
A personal reflection: Why Congo has the largest measles outbreak in the world
Measles is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beth Duff-Brown, who has traveled there for several decades, reflects on the epidemic.