Emery Olcott, a retired businessman, is legally blind and struggles to see what’s on his dinner plate. Cocktail parties are his nemesis, he says, as …
Author: Ruthann Richter
New study could aid in the development of chlamydia vaccine
A study by Stanford scientists sheds new light on immune responses to genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection, and may also help inform the development of vaccines …
New center to advance cancer cell therapy
Cancer cell therapy, once considered to be in the experimental realm, is rapidly becoming an accepted form of treatment that could vastly change the outlook …
Countering the problem of physician burnout
The medical profession is just starting to grapple with the problem of physician burnout, which is reaching epidemic proportions. More than half of physicians surveyed …
Learning about biology and human disease from lemurs
For the past six years, a team of researchers from Stanford has been foraging the jungle in Madagascar, catching mouse lemurs and sampling the blood …
A small African country with a powerful voice
The recent film "A United Kingdom" tells the story of Botswana’s maverick first president who defied convention and caused an international scandal by marrying a …
Special delivery: Letters of support to Syrian refugees
In the video above, Raneem, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, is shown reading aloud a letter of support from a research assistant at Stanford …
Parkinson’s patients find a new rhythm
I arrived a bit late, breathless, to the dance class, held in a corner studio in the Stanford neuroscience clinic. It had been a stressful …
Latest ban on U.S. global funding ignores science, Stanford researchers say
In a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, two Stanford scientists make a case for lifting the ban on U.S. aid to …
Health experts urge FDA to lift restriction on abortion pill
Women in the United States are often unable to get ready, affordable access to mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortion, because of burdensome federal …
Test can spot TB in children, helping save lives
During his decade of work in South Africa, Stanford’s Jason Andrews, MD, has seen many young children die from tuberculosis and been frustrated by the …
In Madagascar, Stanford researchers are working to improve health — and studying lemurs
When Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD, isn’t in his biochemistry lab at Stanford, he might be found in the rainforests of Madagascar chasing down mouse lemurs. …
New ban on U.S. aid to family planning groups could have unintended consequences
The Trump administration’s reinstatement of a policy that bans U.S. foreign aid to agencies that provide abortion counseling abroad was a predictable move that could …
Keeping mosquitoes in check to prevent widespread disease
What is the most deadly animal in the world, when it comes to human disease? Some might be surprised to learn that it’s a bug: …
Keeping Zika out of the nation’s blood supply
When the Zika crisis erupted last year, U.S. blood bank officials began to worry: What if the virus were to infiltrate the blood supply, as …
The challenge of being gay and working in countries where homosexuality is a crime
Jason Nagata, MD, sat in a wooden pew in the church in Kenya, listening to the pastor thunder away at the “abomination” of homosexuality. He …