DNA sequencing for metabolic diseases in newborns may eventually replace the traditional method of genetic screening used to check all new babies for a group of rare, inherited diseases that...
...work as an accelerated form of exposure therapy. "The gold standard for PTSD treatment is prolonged exposure, where people are in a safe environment and they're going through their traumatic...
...it could provide the benefits of getting outside -- and even motivate them to get out. Kim Bullock "People who might otherwise have barriers to getting treatment might be open...
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, behind Alzheimer's disease, and affects nearly a million people in the United States. The disease causes dopamine-producing brain cells to die...
...serious treatment, not unlike cancer or heart disease. Po Wang "The idea of bipolar as a mood spectrum disorder, where moods just fluctuate up and down, has diluted the seriousness...
...associate professor and an infectious disease physician who is a co-director of the Stanford Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic. "This is nothing new. We've been ignoring these problem for decades --...
...on treatment plans, diseases and diagnoses. But recent medical school graduate Cyril Zakka, MD, believed that AI could make that process better. That's what gave him the idea to create...
On Jan. 31, aducanumab, a pricey drug approved for treatment of early-stage Alzheimer's disease, was withdrawn from the market. And in early March, the Food and Drug Administration delayed its...
...Disorders Division and divides her time between clinical work with patients who have Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and leading clinical trials in patients with these conditions. Sharon...
...when it happens -- because evidence shows that chronic trauma symptoms generally don't resolve without treatment. Talk about the international work you've done. After college, I worked at the World...
...bottom of my skull," Shojinaga recalled. "It was compressing the left side of my brain, which is why I was having trouble speaking and reading." She underwent treatment at Stanford...
...any common disease that has some genetic component. We are excited to apply it in many other cells to try to understand other diseases, such as congenital heart disease, type-2...
...the Stanford Medical Scientist Training MD-PhD program, works in the lab of Paul Khavari, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, studying genome regulation in stem cell differentiation and cancer. Lopez channels...
...as she rose through the ranks in academia, Salzman felt the natural world calling her back. She wanted to answer big questions in biology, such as how cells communicate, pathogens...
...dual importance of food -- both as a source of enjoyment, culture, and social connection, as well as a powerful tool for health promotion and disease prevention and treatment. "We're...
...When the bad glial cells were stopped, that increased the survival of the retinal ganglion cells, which are the neurons that degenerate in optic nerve diseases like glaucoma. What are...
