A look at the medical applications of a cooling technique that improves athletic performance.
Just imagine if you could predict and prevent a burst of binge eating or alcohol intake, a heroin injection, a sudden bout of uncontrolled rage or …
The second annual health++ hackathon brought together more than 220 engineers, designers, health care professionals, and business experts to Stanford this fall for a weekend …
Currently, treatment options for people with brain injury from a trauma — such as a car crash, or bike accident — are limited. Some of …
Electronic health records stand out as an oft-cited source of stress that contributes to the worrisome prevalence of burnout in physicians. Now, Stanford family medicine …
The transition from health to illness remains little understood, but it is a critical component of efforts to begin predicting and preventing disease, the goal …
Current imaging technologies like MRI, CT scans and ultrasound provide valuable views inside the body, but each has drawbacks. MRIs require patients to remain still …
A man was quietly sitting and watching TV one day when, in his doctor's words, he started to feel a bit funny. He glanced down …
Your zip code is just a number meant to guide mail delivery, but studies show that it predicts your lifespan better than your genetic code. …
Design thinking may be able to help us disentangle one of the most perplexing complications in the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic disease: human …
There's a pressing need for more research into transgender health issues. That was the argument eloquently laid out at Stanford Medicine X talk this weekend by ePatient Charlie Blotner. As …
After graduating from medical school, Lloyd Minor, MD, now dean of School of Medicine, spent more than a decade honing his medical and research skills, …
In a small, informal workshop at Stanford Medicine X on Sunday afternoon, a group of medical students, doctors and others met to discuss one of …
When Alexis Roberts Keiner's 9-week-old son died unexpectedly at day care in 2012, “we had to choose very quickly what kind of bereaved family we …
On the final day of Stanford Medicine X, Alice Wong, founder and project coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, moderated the poignant, at times humorous, …
When Doug Lindsay, a 21-year-old college student, first began to feel sick, he received a diagnosis of mononucleosis and was told to stay home and …
