...Association (AMA) began calling it a public health crisis in 2016. But despite my AMA membership, I've struggled with accepting gun violence as a health issue. The connection between guns...
...and practice in medicine." To this end, the Presence Center is hosting a day-long symposium in April for physicians, researchers, technologists, venture capitalists, policy specialists and other interested parties to...
...field, including the affects of physical activity on the brain, the impacts of sedentary behavior (including extensive sitting throughout the day), the benefits of persistent exercise and ways to increase...
...his courage, and what a decent person he was, and what an awful thing he'd been through." At the end of the day, I wondered, what is she trying to...
...of Biological Chemistry, researchers have now discovered a way to turn off a potential trigger of inflammation for those with the disease, a finding that could one day lead to...
...match-up proved able to shrink ordinarily highly aggressive tumors in these mice without producing the lethal tissue damage unmodified IL-2 did. It's an off-beat love story. A bioengineered immune-signaling protein/receptor...
...to grow genetically matched, transplantable human organs in large animals like sheep or pigs by transplanting stem cells into early animal embryos. I wrote about his quest, and the difficulties...
...remote — and not because our science is lacking. In fact, our data are promising and our results convincing. Our work may some day offer an alternative to patients wishing...
...malaria to tell us when they were bitten by an infected mosquito,” Schneider wrote in a study published in PLOS Biology in 2016. In that study, Schneider’s group monitored malaria-infected...
...-- and glorious -- day he spent suspended outside the International Space Station Discovery to repair a ripped solar panel wing. In another story, engineers, biologists and doctors discuss the...
...about 100 faculty and students at Stanford’s annual global health convening. A professor of surgery, Wren was among the featured speakers at the day-long gathering, sponsored by the Stanford Center...
...food? I enjoy really good Korean food and dim sum. Have you gone on any fun trips recently? Me and some of my cohort hiked Mount Whitney in one day...
...protective layer. The prototype passed rigorous durability tests, and the new material and manufacturing process together could pave the way for innovations in everyday gadgets in the near term. (Think...
...know that if we can focus on knowledge and facts, instead of feeling, we won't carry patients' pain home with us at the end of the day. In addition, my...
...an annual one-day event that focused this year on technology innovation and the human genome. Just as genes shape a person’s physical appearance, they also create variation at a molecular...
During his first quarter as a Stanford freshman in 2015, Kevin Supakkul's life changed in an instant. One day as he rode on campus, his bike struck a post, and...
