Stanford Medicine film buffs recommend documentaries, feature films and short videos that offer compelling looks at the medical world.
Increasing numbers of women use long-acting reversible contraceptives, but less than half of family physicians provide these forms of birth control.
Graduate student Johanna O'Day has started an effort that helps Parkinson's patients tell their story and connects researchers and patients.
Orly Farber, a second-year medical student, shares her experience treating a woman with a facial wound.
Lizzy Highstreet, 11, is now recovering at home after receiving a lung transplant due to complications from cystic fibrosis.
Parents and nurses read to preemies at a recent Packard Children's event, promoting the benefits of reading to babies uncovered by recent Stanford research.
Looking for a good biomedical read? Stanford Medicine communicators offer up their top picks for the year.
A broadcast studio that features a variety of programming for patients opened recently at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Neurosurgery resident Adela Wu comments on the importance of personalizing the informed consent process before a procedure for each patient.
In this Q&A, Cori Poffenberger, a physician and mother to a daughter who has spina bifida, offers suggestions for caring for people with disabilities.
When Kristin and Patrick Flor learned the baby they were expecting had a severe genetic syndrome, they planned with Stanford doctors for her brief life.
Patients who undergo physical therapy soon after a pain diagnosis are less likely to use opioids in the long term, a Stanford-Duke study finds.
The Stanford Medicine 2018 Health Trends Report found that an explosion of data in medicine is democratizing health care.
Two leaders of Stanford’s Presence Center — Abraham Verghese and Sonoo Thadaney Israni — explore how AI can enhance the human side of patient care.
In this piece, a fourth-year medical student shares a recent patient encounter and what he's learned about breaking bad news to patients.
A Stanford study highlights a data optimization method for health-risk assessments to lower costs and and improve diagnostic power.
