Estrogen-based hormone therapy has been a hotly debated issue for years. In 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative, the largest-ever federally sponsored study of postmenopausal women’s health, …
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Moving the needle on organ donation
For the thousands of people on organ donation lists, news of an available heart, or lungs, or liver can’t come soon enough. But many don’t …
Meet the stars of Stanford Medicine
I’ve been at Stanford long enough - 14 years and counting! - to have met countless amazingly dedicated, hard-working people. And it’s not just the seasoned faculty and …
AHA calls for population-wide reduction in daily salt intake
To improve Americans' cardiovascular health and reduce health-care costs, health guidelines regarding salt consumption should be lowered to 1,500 mg per day, according to the …
Rosenkranz Prize winner to launch microbiome research project in Africa
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, has a gut feeling about many medical maladies. That is, she believes that we can fight some diseases by learning more …
Jimmy Carter: The final campaign
This 1:2:1 podcast features former President Jimmy Carter discussing equality for women and girls.
This 1:2:1 podcast features former President Jimmy Carter discussing equality for women and girls.
What Einstein taught us about intellect and brain function
Half a century after the death of Albert Einstein, scientists continue to unlock the secrets of his genius and shed new light on how the …
Nancy Snyderman speaks at Stanford Women's Health Forum
Nancy Snyderman from NBC News told the Stanford Women's Health Forum audience to take charge of their own well-being and become informed participants in their own health care decisions.
Nancy Snyderman from NBC News told the Stanford Women's Health Forum audience to take charge of their own well-being and become informed participants in their own health care decisions.
61-year-old grandfather gets new heart valve at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
One little-known fact about children's hospitals: A number of their patients are not children. I wrote about one such patient recently, a 61-year-old San Jose …
Muting an inflammatory loudspeaker on immune cells shrinks acute stroke damage
Selectively subduing a set of cells that migrate to the brain after a stroke occurs could meaningfully treat the stroke even days later.
Selectively subduing a set of cells that migrate to the brain after a stroke occurs could meaningfully treat the stroke even days later.
OrderRex taps decisions of thousands of “doctors like me”
As a new clinician, Stanford's Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, struggled to treat patients with unfamiliar conditions. He yearned to ask one or, even better, dozens of …
Can smoking bans help improve fetal outcomes?
In 2004, Ireland became one of the first countries to enact a workplace smoking ban; five years later, a study showed that the ban was …
Image of the Week: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Earlier this week we showed you a clever slideshow explaining, at a third-grade level, how the overuse of antibiotics has driven the development of "bugs" …
Helping young cleft palate patient feel like a star
10-year-old Mathias Dizon fulfilled a promise to sing the national anthem at the Stanford Children’s Health Cleft and Craniofacial Center's annual patient and family picnic.
10-year-old Mathias Dizon fulfilled a promise to sing the national anthem at the Stanford Children’s Health Cleft and Craniofacial Center's annual patient and family picnic.
The biology of music
Maggie Koerth-Baker has an interesting entry on Boing Boing today on the biology of music and why humans like specific groups of tones. Her post …
A dye to try: New compound provides improved imaging, safety
A team of Stanford-led researchers has created a dye capable of identifying tumors in a variety of tissues and providing surgeons with real-time video feedback …