At a recent talk on campus, Amy Abernethy, an FDA principal deputy commissioner, discussed her career and her work to facilitate clinical advances.
Helping share the news earlier this year about three women who had been blinded by a fraudulent stem cell procedure was sobering and somewhat surprising for …
At a discussion Wednesday at Stanford's medical school, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, didn't address political changes in Washington, mentioning only that …
Several antibacterial compounds can no longer be added to consumer soaps sold in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration ruled last week. Two …
A group of gynecologists is calling for the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its 2014 ruling banning the use of a device called a …
There's much ado about the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 this week, with a multinational summit in Washington, D.C. on human gene editing, plus the clock ticking …
A new study came out this week that happened to remind me of one of my pet peeves about certain biomedical studies -- choosing an …
Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder once known as juvenile diabetes because it tends to strike during adolescence or earlier, affects one in every 300 …
Roughly 16 million women over the age of 50 suffer from low sex drive. Yet, until recently, there were no FDA-approved medications to treat the lack of …
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
As you've probably heard, the FDA ruled last week to ban trans-fats and phase them out of all food products over the next three years. …
Livestock can no longer be fed antibiotics "preventatively" or to help them grow bigger. The FDA has ruled to change their regulations of how drugs can be …
Indoor UV tanning beds are known carcinogens that are responsible for many cases of skin cancer, which is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in …
In a PNAS opinion piece (.pdf) published last week, two Stanford faculty are among the authors arguing that sex shouldn't be overlooked in basic research studies. …
E-cigarettes are far from safe, Robert Jackler, MD, writes in a strongly worded op-ed that appeared over the weekend in the San Jose Mercury News. …
How are drugs born? If you're really curious about this, you'd be fascinated by the weekly meetings of industry experts and academic researchers taking part …
