A Stanford physician argues pregnant women should be appropriately included in clinical research to improve their health and the health of their fetuses.
Sharon Chinthrajah weighs in on a new peanut allergy immunotherapy, speaking to its potential and its role in the future of food allergies therapy.
A novel immunotherapy appears safe for use in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Here, a Northern California man shares his experience in the study.
The anti-inflammatory drug ketoprofen shows promise as effective medical treatment for lymphedema symptoms, small Stanford study finds
A new Stanford-led study catalogs the prevalence and types of deception by volunteers in clinical trials and suggests ways for investigators to root it out.
Most participants in clinical trials believe the benefits of broadly sharing individual data outweigh the risks, a new Stanford study has found.
In a meta-analysis of more than 500 clinical trials, researchers have new conclusions about the efficacy of 21 different antidepressants.
The Project Baseline study is an ambitious endeavor with a potentially transformative payoff. Launched in April after years of designing and planning by Verily, an Alphabet …
Should data from clinical trials be available to all? Or just for certain investigations? Who decides? And how would that work? These, and a host …
Clinical trials, in their current incarnation, are ill-suited for the nimble, personalized precision health era, a a panel of speakers at the Big Data in …
A number of changes could affect the future of clinical trials, including the increased involvement of health-care providers, said Thomas Pike, the former CEO of …
I can summarize a recent press release I wrote about an unproven stem cell treatment in three words: sad, shocking and sobering. Three women with …
In a previous post, I described why I enrolled in a clinical trial at Stanford to treat my Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But I didn’t share the …
When I was 29 years old, I was one of the healthiest people I knew. I biked 10 miles to work, played ultimate frisbee, slept …
Let's say you have high blood pressure that can be treated with one of two medications. Neither drug is experimental; both are within the standard …
Biomed Bites is back. It's a weekly feature that introduces readers to some of Stanford's most innovative biomedical researchers. A love of mathematics propelled Ying Lu, …
