Scientists and doctors discuss aging, healthy diets and new treatments for mental health at this year's Health Matters event.
Stanford Medicine researchers weigh in on the promise and peril of increasingly popular diabetes drugs being used for weight loss.
Achieving more equitable health outcomes calls for understanding and addressing societal challenges in places we live, work and play.
Researchers, policy makers, clinicians and others convened to discuss new approaches and innovations to improve mental health care.
As FDA weighs a ban on menthol in cigarettes, study shows how the tobacco industry targeted products to women, teens and Black people.
A philosopher by nature, Christopher Gardner had a meandering, yet purposeful, path to nutrition science and food sustainability.
Tait Shanafelt discusses physician suicide as a national crisis, and how to support health care workers' mental health.
Researchers have created a menstrual pad that can passively help detect HPV, potentially offering a screening method other than pap smears.
A group of Black women work toward a peer navigation program to help other Black women survive breast cancer.
A Stanford surgical resident shares her story behind why she decided to freeze her eggs in the hopes that she can demystify the process.
Two Stanford Biodesign researchers designed a birth control app and case that helps women track their weekly doses.
Stanford Medicine researchers are exploring how men and women's brains differ after traumatic head injury.
A common ovarian cancer evades detection by convincing nearby immune cells to treat it as a developing fetus.
Stanford researchers find that "entertainment education" helps teach new mothers about the importance of breastfeeding.
Exposure to wildfire smoke increases a pregnant woman's risk of giving birth three or more weeks early, a new Stanford study found.
Stanford research shows headaches caused by epidural complications during childbirth can be more serious and chronic than previously thought.
