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Are long COVID sufferers falling through the cracks?

...productivity losses from cancer or diabetes. Yet, the Stanford experts say, those diseases receive billions of research dollars annually while long COVID research remains woefully underfunded. "If you think about...

Why we should be fighting heart disease more like we fight cancer

...treatments. Many are aware of the genetic cancer risk in their families. Similar screenings, effective medications and genetic tests are available for heart disease, but fewer patients know about them...

Sick of being sick? As respiratory viruses roar back, experts offer guidance

...aren't expressly tailored outpatient treatments; inpatient treatments are used selectively for high-risk populations, Liu said. Severe COVID-19, flu and RSV symptoms, such as a fever lasting more than three days,...

Why precision medicine leads to better diabetes care

...was sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Three other Stanford Medicine diabetes experts -- Anna Gloyn, DPhil,...

No more ‘just deal with it’: Helping teens have easier periods

...improve patients' future health, since other conditions can go along with PCOS, including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, weight gain and mood and sleep disorders. A second common scenario is a teen...

What’s the deali-O Part 2: Navigating new weight loss drugs

...MD, associate professor of endocrinology and member of the Stanford Diabetes Research Center. "People without diabetes have been trying alternative ways to get these drugs." It's possible to order semaglutide...

AI helps gauge patients’ attitude toward cholesterol drugs

...we saw a lot of misunderstandings about side effects and unproven alternative treatments to lower cholesterol." Scouring social media To find out what's behind statin resistance, the researchers turned to...

Researchers team with CDC to expand adult hepatitis B testing

...are the screening benefits? Like many chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, which have no curative treatment, chronic hepatitis B infection requires regular long-term monitoring and treatment if the...

Using AI to find disease-causing genes

...identify genetic mutations that cause those diseases and open new doors for scientists to better harness genetics to develop disease treatments, said Gary Peltz, MD, PhD, professor of anesthesiology, perioperative...

Pandemic Puzzle: Vaccinating children

...Treatments, and Cures"-- was the last in a four-part Pandemic Puzzle series, hosted by the Stanford School of Medicine and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, that examines how the United States -- and the...

Diabetes, obesity and … the primary cilia?

...reveals the molecular details of the relationship between diabetes and obesity, and could lead to the development of new diabetes drugs that can amplify the action of existing medications. "This...

Technology equality gap for kids’ diabetes treatment is growing

...in Diabetes Care. The research included about 16,000 children and teens in the United States and nearly 40,000 in Germany. All have type 1 diabetes, which interferes with the body's...

States allow misleading claims that cannabis can treat opioid addiction

...the Suboxone, and onto a healthier choice, medical cannabis," the tweet read. Such misguided medical advice "is really dangerous," Shover said. "The FDA-approved treatments for opioid use disorder are quite...

Alarming COVID-19-related condition in children is rare

...sick with COVID-19, where older age and chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension have been associated with more serious illness. So far, maybe it's a little bit more common...

Watching for eating disorders in transgender teens

...losses -- could have medical side effects. For instance, extreme weight loss endangers bone health, while weight gain can lead to pre-diabetes. So Aye's team asked their patients to participate...

Demystifying Heart Failure: A treatable chronic disease

...or cocaine) and alcohol, or may be hereditary. Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and sleep apnea, can contribute to heart failure. While heart failure can occur in both the left...