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Taking Depression Seriously: Anxiety, addiction and chronic illness

...These feelings can ultimately lead to depression. It is also thought that inflammation, a byproduct of increased immune activity and a key part of diseases such as autoimmune disorders, diabetes,...

...These feelings can ultimately lead to depression. It is also thought that inflammation, a byproduct of increased immune activity and a key part of diseases such as autoimmune disorders, diabetes,...

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Taking Depression Seriously: Breaking down barriers to care

...visits for a chronic disease like diabetes, they must also offer unlimited visits for conditions such as depression or schizophrenia. These two policies are still relatively young, though, and some...

...visits for a chronic disease like diabetes, they must also offer unlimited visits for conditions such as depression or schizophrenia. These two policies are still relatively young, though, and some...

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What I learned in medical school

...and treatments for heart failure, diabetes, syphilis, and dozens of other diseases off the top of my head. And I’ve repeatedly needed to do so on exams, during clinical rotations,...

...and treatments for heart failure, diabetes, syphilis, and dozens of other diseases off the top of my head. And I’ve repeatedly needed to do so on exams, during clinical rotations,...

Obesity and depression connected in kids’ brains, Stanford study finds

...wanted to understand brain changes that might underlie both conditions as a first step toward finding more effective treatments. The team looked for abnormalities in the brain's reward centers. Prior...

...wanted to understand brain changes that might underlie both conditions as a first step toward finding more effective treatments. The team looked for abnormalities in the brain's reward centers. Prior...

Stanford symposium illuminates how stem cell therapies interact with their surroundings

...we hit them with differentiation cues.” Surgeon Michael Longaker, MD, is examining bone healing in diabetes. It’s long been known that fractures heal more slowly in people with diabetes than...

...we hit them with differentiation cues.” Surgeon Michael Longaker, MD, is examining bone healing in diabetes. It’s long been known that fractures heal more slowly in people with diabetes than...

Stanford scientist asks how chronic diseases affect kids’ bones

When children have diabetes, kidney disease, inflammatory bowel disease or cancer, their doctors and families focus first on keeping the patients alive in the short term. But caregivers also need...

When children have diabetes, kidney disease, inflammatory bowel disease or cancer, their doctors and families focus first on keeping the patients alive in the short term. But caregivers also need...

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