An anti-smoking ad campaign featuring a woman with depression helps smokers with mental health conditions attempt to quit.
Category: Health Policy
Seeds of a movement: Women global health leaders gather in London
Begun at Stanford, the Women Leaders in Global Health conference is working to empower women in the global health community.
Compensation for kidneys would help the poor, study finds
A government program providing market-value, noncash compensation to kidney donors would benefit poor people and not be exploitative, according to a study.
Proposal to include the price of drugs in television ads is flawed, Stanford scholar writes
Including price information in TV advertisements may lead consumers to avoid care or may misrepresent the actual cost of care, a Stanford scholar writes.
Empowering women in India to improve their health: A Q&A
In this Q&A, Suhani Jalota, a graduate student in health policy, discusses her work helping impoverished women in India.
Stanford tobacco researcher weighs in on JUUL
In this commentary, Stanford tobacco expert Robert Jackler adds context to the recent decision by JUUL to stop direct social media in the U.S.
From heart disease to cancer: New study tracks shift of county death rates
The leading cause of death in the U.S. is shifting from heart disease to cancer at varying paces across the country, according to Stanford research.
Dissecting high drug costs
A Stanford professor unpacks some of the dynamics of the current drug pricing system and the potential effects of other approaches to this market.
Stricter gun laws reduce child and adolescent gun deaths, Stanford study finds
Across the country, states with more restrictive firearm laws have significantly fewer pediatric gun deaths than those with lax gun laws.
Stanford physicians outline potential negative health effects of detaining immigrant children
Loss of autonomy is a major source of trauma, physicians say. A trauma-informed approach would benefit immigrant families and communities receiving them.
The relationship between patient self-management and health care costs
A Stanford-led study examines whether the Patient Activation Measure can serve as an early indicator that an effort is affecting health care costs
New analysis examines the importance of location in the opioid crisis
A team of economists have examined the importance of location and opioid prevalence to help tease out the relative importance of supply in the epidemic.
A look at the cigarette epidemic in China
A new book by Stanford researchersexamines China’s cigarette industry to understand the root causes of our global cigarette epidemic.
Promoting gender diversity in research
A new paper outlines strategies to promote gender diversity in research teams, which can also generate new questions, techniques and results.
Considering the challenges posed by technology that tracks whether you took your meds
Digital medicine advances prompt call for more study about potential implications and ethical issues for patients and clinicians.
World Bank Group leader addresses global health community at Stanford
Jim Yong Kim shared insights from his experience at the helm of global health and financing organizations at a recent address on campus.