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Stanford Medicine’s Big Data in Precision Health event returns
Stanford Medicine's Big Data in Precision Health conference unites people who create, study and use information from big data to improve health.
Why physicians should pay attention to web reviews
While some doctors have criticized Web sites where patients can rate medical practitioners as unethical and defamatory, Milwaukee psychiatrist Shaili Jain, MD, argues that physicians …
Women with epilepsy face elevated risk of death during pregnancy and childbirth – but why?
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Immune cell linked to surgery recovery time, Stanford scientists find
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Scientist pens love letter to stem cells, calls them "irresistible"
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Using CRISPR to investigate pancreatic cancer
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Digital devices help doctors spot hypertension through Humanwide
Data from an at-home device through the Humanwide project help a patient and his primary care team discover hypertension that wasn't detected at the clinic.