Even adults who are not considered "high-risk" should be tested to reduce deaths and improve cure rates, new Stanford Health Policy research suggests.
A new study suggests that a blood test following exercise may be a good way to differentiate between people who have ME/CFS and people who don't.
A look at the lab and work of Brian Kobilka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Stanford researchers led work on a possible cancer vaccine that involves injecting two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors.
Stanford's Mary Leonard has devoted her research career to understanding how chronic diseases weaken children's bones, and what we can do about it.
In this piece in a series on high blood pressure, Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, tackles the problems caused by the side effects of medications.
Part of my graduate school orientation took place in California's White Mountains. I'll never forget the ancient bristlecone pines, stunning views, or how sick and …
Gender bias can rear its head in unexpected ways. In a new study from Stanford researchers, female OB/GYNs were 47 percent less likely to receive …
A trio of Stanford researchers has published an editorial in Tobacco Control, criticizing the makers of a brand of cigarettes for claiming to be environmentally …
MRI is a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic tool widely used to investigate anatomical structures and functions in the body. Though generally considered to be safe, several studies …
I would expect it to take all day for a snail to get across my backyard and its entire life to get around my neighborhood. …
I first learned about the secret U.S. government syphilis study conducted on poor black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a college class on ethics. The …
The greatest challenge in the field of neuroscience, according to two experts, is that we still don't understand the basics. Around forty students, scientists, and community …
The retina, a thin sheet of cells no more than half as thick as a credit card, is the light-sensing part of the eye. If nerve cells were …
There's nothing more macho than a Y chromosome. It not only confers maleness on its recipient but is handed down from one generation to the next pretty much stubbornly unchanged. …
One of the oldest scientific debates is "nature versus nurture" -- do inherited traits or environmental factors shape who we are, and what we do? …
