For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented that African-American patients have consistently had lower survival rates in colon cancer when compared …
Author: Lisa Marie Potter
Of mice and men: Stanford researchers compare mammals' genomes to aid human clinical research
Scientists have long considered the laboratory mouse one of the best stand-ins for researching human disease because of the animals' genetic similarity to humans. Now …
Child-mortality gap narrows in developing countries
Child-mortality rates in developing countries are decreasing. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that worldwide mortality rates for children under the age of five have …
New molecular imaging could improve bladder-cancer detection
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. For bladder-cancer surgeons, an image can be worth many lives. That's because a crucial method for …
Competition keeps health-care costs low, Stanford study finds
The term market competition usually sparks a mental image of business suits and ties, not white coats and stethoscopes. Yet even the health-care system plays …