When computer scientist Andrew A. Radin came to Stanford University School of Medicine and enrolled in a biomedical informatics course, he was just there to …
Author: Jennie Dusheck
Diagnose this: A look at anticipating and preventing disease
As discussed here earlier this week, the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores the meaning and future of diagnostics. But what exactly is diagnostics? For …
A step closer to gene therapy for sickle cell disease
In the 1980s, molecular biologists conceived the idea of gene therapy, in which a genetic disease might be cured by replacing the mutated disease-causing gene …
WELL unites project organizers at a wellness summit
Last week, I joined more than 100 others for a one-day Wellness Living Laboratory Summit, sponsored by the Stanford Prevention Research Center. WELL is a clinical …
New technique offers glimpse at human evolution in action
In research published in Science, a Stanford-led international team used a new analytic technique to map recent evolution. The technique relies exclusively on the DNA sequences of …
Patient data shows that common prostate cancer treatment likely doubles risk of dementia
Improved methods for analyzing patient medical records support the suspicion that a common cancer treatment may increase the risk of dementia. Such methods may soon …
Mystery solved: Researchers use genetic tools to diagnose young girl’s rare heart condition
Right after Astrea Li was born, she went into cardiac arrest, not just once, but repeatedly. It was all her doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital …
Group urges ban on menthol-flavored tobacco, which is marketed to African Americans
Earlier this week, a crowd at a press conference about tobacco use in African American communities erupted in enthusiastic applause when a Stanford researcher concluded her …
“It’s an effort to change the world of medicine and health”: WELL for Life launches today
The Stanford Prevention Research Center has launched a huge, new international study of health and well-being called WELL for Life -- and today's the first day to sign …
Recessions and health: The verdict? Probably not good for you
It’s no news that recessions have dramatic effects on people’s sense of well-being. When I think of the Great Depression of the 1930s, for example, …
Plumbing the well of wellness
Almost everyone can think of a moment when they felt well. Maybe it was midway through a week lying on a beach in Hawaii with …
An evolutionary look at cancer
Cancer biologists have lately come to appreciate the central role that evolution plays in the development of cancers. Yet just as oncology researchers have begun to incorporate …
Stanford Medicine, Google join forces on genomics
Show up at Stanford with a serious health problem and your doctor may soon be looking at your genomic data for a diagnosis. Stanford and …
Sickle cell trait less dangerous than thought
In the fall of 2006, a 19-year-old college football player died the day after a vigorous workout, the result, medical examiners said, of complications from …
USDA missed key opportunity to promote a plant-based diet, Stanford researcher says
Food is a topic of nearly obsessive conversation and amazingly fraught. Someone who casually passes up a plate of dinner rolls at a party might be …
UseR conference: Fun with statisticians and programmers
Against all expectation, I was swept up by the enthusiasm of the friendly R community at the fabulous annual UseR meeting, held here at Stanford …