...of Pediatrics, has devoted her research career to understanding how chronic diseases weaken children's bones, and what we can do about it. Chronic diseases can hurt the bones in many...
...blood pressure and at higher risk for stroke and heart attack based on older age, mild kidney disease, heart disease or heart disease risk factors. Expected to last five years,...
...patients can tolerate mild side effects given the substantial benefits of preventing heart disease, stroke, heart failure and kidney disease. And there's evidence that lowering blood pressure works: A recent...
...beyond traditional treatment methods. Despite the fact that his wife wouldn't benefit, Schottenstein made a gift in her honor that he hopes might someday provide better options for others suffering...
...and undertreated disease. "Migraine affects 36 million people nationwide and is the seventh leading cause of disability worldwide. These statistics are staggering. I felt that this was a field in...
...the cancer cell. And literally they'll just go across the surface of the cell mowing off the sugars, like stripping off the makeup. And then the cells can be seen...
...happens to me. He tells the story of his journey through later-life career transitions in a deeply personal, yet highly relevant commentary that appears this week in the Journal of...
...risk of overdose. Ninety-one Americans die every day from an opioid overdose -- a number that has quadrupled since 1999, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A...
...type of MRI help narrow the gap between stem cell promise and reality? and Why some healthy-looking young adults may still be at risk for heart disease Photo by phonlamaiphoto...
...study led by a researcher from the University of California, Berkeley, certain types of freshwater snails can travel distances of almost 30 miles, spreading a potentially deadly parasitic disease as...
...was whether the clinical trial using 600 African-American men was ethical when considering the greater societal good of learning more about the brutal venereal disease. The U.S. Public Health Service...
...neural pathways function could lead to improved treatments for depression, genetic disease, and many other conditions, she explained. Neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate Tom Südhof, MD, PhD, echoed those sentiments, telling the audience:...
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 offices, this...
...doesn’t. The study appears in the Journal of Political Economy. Previously: Stanford's "time banking" program helps emergency room physicians avoid burnout and Improving patient satisfaction and turn-around time in an...
http://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm-news/one-to-one/audio/2016/CostelloxMackall.mp3/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.audio.mp3hq.mp3 There's a new kid on the block in cancer treatment. Actually it's an old kid who's been around for awhile but is being heralded as new and potentially...
...a man's other 22 pairs of chromosomes, his Y chromosome doesn't have a nearly identical partner to pair with in the cell nucleus," Stanford genetic genealogy wizard Carlos Bustamante, PhD,...
