Our ability to technologically assess the brain has room for improvement, according to panelists at the recent Association of Health Care Journalism 2015 conference. Amit …
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Stanford stem cell experts highlight “inherent flaw” in drug development system
Academic institutions are in a much better position than pharmaceutical companies to make the best decisions about which therapies deserve further development. That was the …
Looking at cancer as a chronic illness
Many of us think of cancer as a terminal illness, but as treatments have become more sophisticated, more and more people are living longer with cancer. …
Counseling parents of the earliest-born preemies: A mom and two physicians talk about the challenges
When Juniper French was born in April 2011, her mom had been pregnant for 23 weeks and 6 days - a little more than half …
Ebola: It’s not over
Ebola may have receded from the headlines, but the challenges and threat of the disease persist. The epidemic, which has killed more than 10,700 people …
Stanford Medicine’s Lloyd Minor on re-conceiving medical education
Stanford Medicine is no stranger to pioneering changes in medical education, so a panel on re-inventing health provider education at the Association of Health Care Journalism …
Physician-author Abraham Verghese encourages journalists to tell the powerful stories of medicine
Stanford's Abraham Verghese, MD, greeted hundreds of journalists at the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 conference last evening with a talk centered on the power of …
Live tweeting from Association of Health Care Journalists conference
Starting tomorrow morning, we'll be live tweeting from the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 conference, which is being held in Santa Clara, Calif. and …