Bill Williams is a teacher and theater director who lost his 24-year-old son to a heroin overdose in 2012. Ashley Elliott is a former addict …
Month: December 2017
In Stanford clinical trial, children successfully desensitized to food allergens
Joshua Geller used to be very worried about food. Geller, now 14, has severe food allergies. Until recently, he couldn't safely eat even the tiniest …
Researchers find decline in chemotherapy use for breast cancers
In a growing movement toward targeted, less-toxic cancer therapies, physicians are growing increasingly less likely to recommend chemotherapy treatment in some early-stage breast cancer patients, …
One family’s story illuminates the Bay Area housing crisis
Recently, I met a mother facing a complex set of challenges. Patricia Gutierrez is a single mom raising three children in San Mateo County, just …
Stanford freshman headed to Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony to present research
Stanford undergrad Prathik Naidu has some big plans this weekend: He's heading to Sweden to present his research at Sunday's Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony. Stanford …
New report provides recommendations to reduce the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S.
People living in the United States spend more per capita on prescription drugs than people living in any other country. In an effort to make …
Newly renovated Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to open its doors
This is a big week for the Stanford Medicine community: The renovated Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford will officially open its doors on Saturday, Dec. …
Uptick in gun violence research reveals several consequences of policy changes
There's good news, of sorts, on the gun violence research front -- namely that there's an increasing number of studies on the issue, which has …
On the road to diabetes: How to halt disease progression and turn back to health
This is the second in a series of blog posts by Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, discussing prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
This is the second in a series of blog posts by Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, discussing prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
What would a CVS-Aetna merger mean for health consumers?
CVS Health recently announced it would buy Aetna, the country’s third-largest health insurance company, for $69 billion -- a deal that could revamp the nation’s …
Researchers investigate fruit flies as a step toward understanding the human brain
Researchers have been trying to map out the brain's complex neural circuits to understand how diseases like Parkinson's disrupt healthy brain communication, in hopes of …
A natural fix for heart valves
In the operating room, cardiac surgeon Joseph Woo, MD, is poised to begin a challenging operation on a man whose aorta and aortic valve have …
How to master the neuro exam
As a medical student, neurology can be one of the most intimidating rotations. The brain is so complex and the neuro exam so difficult to …
Affordable Care Act plans provide risk protection, but use of ratings can be misleading
Most relatively healthy Affordable Care Act plan consumers pay more out-of-pocket than they may have thought based on the rating level — from bronze to …
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford celebrates new facility
On Nov. 30, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its new building. Slated to welcome its first patients on December …
At code-a-thon, participants asked to develop solutions to combat the opioid epidemic
This week programmers from across the country will convene in Washington, D.C., to take part in a code-a-thon hosted by the U.S. Department of Health …