Nearly 70 percent of Americans ages 20 or older are overweight or obese, including Larry Chu, MD, a Stanford anesthesiologist and executive director of Medicine …
Author: Lia Steakley
Investigating the human microbiome: “We’re only just beginning and there is so much more to explore”
The more scientists learn about the body's community of bacteria, the more they believe that the human microbiome plays an important role in our overall …
Study shows mothers receiving fertility treatments may have an elevated risk of depression
An estimated one in four couples in developing countries encounter difficulties trying to conceive. In the United States, more than 7 million women have undergone …
Exploring the role of prion-like proteins in memory disorders
Over on the Mind the Brain blog, Stanford psychiatrist Shaili Jain, MD, discusses disorders of memory, including post-traumatic stress disorder and Alzheimer's, with Nobel Laureate Eric …
Charlotte Jacobs on finding “snippets during every day” to balance careers in medicine and literature
Stanford oncologist Charlotte Jacobs, MD, loved reading biographies as a child. But it wasn't until years later, while on sabbatical at Stanford, that she decided …
Examining the long-term health benefits for women of exercise in adolescence
Sometime around the age of five, I distinctly remember my mother telling me, "You have to play a sport. You can pick any sport you …
How the FDA is promoting data sharing and transparency to support innovations in public health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
A look at the MyHeart Counts app and the potential of mobile technologies to improve human health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
A behind the scenes look at the Stanford-ABC News Fellowship in Media and Global Health
Since arriving at Stanford, third-year medical student Michael Nedelman has pursued his passion for film by producing a number of documentaries, including projects about LGBT …
Can food mentions in newspapers predict national obesity rates?
Food words trending in today's newspapers could help predict a country's obesity rates in three years, according to findings recently published in the journal BMC Public …
Discussing patient participation in medical research: “We had to take this into our own hands”
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Are decisions driven by subconscious desires or shaped by conscious goals?
Throughout our lives, we often encounter perplexing situations involving other individuals or read in the news about someone's seemingly irrational decision and say to ourselves: …
“This is probably one of the last major diseases we know nothing about”: A look at CFS
Chronic fatigue syndrome affects between 836,000 to 2.5 million people in the United States, and 25 percent of them are confined to their bed. Earlier …
A day in the life of your body, in video
Most of us give little thought to the daily inner workings of our bodies. We're more focused on the tasks of getting ourselves, and the …
A look at aging and longevity in this “unprecedented” time in history
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
New research offers comprehensive picture of the lingering effects of sports injuries
In an effort to better understand the lasting impact of sports injuries, Stanford physicians collaborated with the university's athletic department to enroll nearly 1,700 student …