In 2014, a new type of tobacco product, a heat-not-burn cigarette, was marketed to the people of Japan. These battery-powered cigarettes heat tobacco to roughly …
Month: October 2017
“Cancer will always be with me”: How one patient lives with her diagnosis
Last week, as part of our series honoring women's cancer awareness months, we told the story of ovarian cancer survivor Mollie Jarret. In the second installment of our …
What can financial crises teach us about medicine? Timothy Geithner explains
There’s a moment in the book Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises when Timothy Geithner describes what it felt like to be at the center of the …
Stanford chemists produce chemical — originally from marine creature — needed for new drugs
One person’s weed is another’s flower. A good example of this is spiral-tufted bryozoan, an invasive marine organism that fouls up marine environments. Although considered …
Formerly conjoined twins star in broadcast special
Ten months ago, when conjoined twins Erika and Eva Sandoval were separated at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, their doctors and family were facing a …
Women leadership in global health benefits everyone, conference goers are reminded
Just six weeks ago, Jim Yong Kim, MD, president of the World Bank, tweeted out a photo of top leaders of the World Health Organization …
NICU graduates celebrate health during annual reunion at Stanford
Both my daughters spent the first few days of their lives in the NICU. Watching the teeny-tiny love of your life hooked up to countless …
How a NIH re-entry grant helped this researcher return to the lab
How did a National Institutes of Health grant help a Stanford bioengineer get back into research after a break? In a recent story in Inside …
Measuring patient experience in two words
How much can you convey in just two words? Quite a bit, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Researchers there …
Too high: Older drugs work well for hypertension, new medications show little innovation
In this piece in a series on high blood pressure, Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, outlines the most common medications used to treat blood pressure.
In this piece in a series on high blood pressure, Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, outlines the most common medications used to treat blood pressure.
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Driven to understand prostate cancer
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Tanya Stoyanova, PhD, who studies prostate cancer.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Tanya Stoyanova, PhD, who studies prostate cancer.
Power in numbers: Researchers collaborate to study tissue-specific gene expression
One of the thorniest issues of biology -- learning how differences in DNA sequences among individuals affect how genes are expressed in their bodies' tissues …
Blood, sweat and tears: How Stanford built a rare disease biorepository in a few days
It can take years for a researcher studying a rare disease to collect enough patient data to begin the analysis phase of a study. But …
First Women Leaders in Global Health conference comes to Stanford
This Thursday, hundreds of women from around the world will gather here for the inaugural Women Leaders in Global Health conference, designed to highlight the …
I’m not suicidal… But we should talk
My sister did something brave two years ago when she started getting national interviews about her bestselling energy beverage: She talked about her depression. She …
Planning underway for Stanford Medicine’s future
What will the future hold for Stanford Medicine? That question, and the related -- how do we get there? — are at the heart of …