At a recent Dean's Lecture Series talk on campus, Richard Besser discussed equity in health and his work at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The leading cause of death in the U.S. is shifting from heart disease to cancer at varying paces across the country, according to Stanford research.
The American dream of children growing up to earn more than their parents is harder to achieve than it used to be, and big data gives valuable insight into how it has changed.
When gravely ill undocumented immigrants wait to seek health care, they’re less likely to have end-of-life care that follows their wishes.
Two med students created a seminar series that showcases how surgeons can address health inequities.
When I think of the emergency department, I think of patients in crisis from a heart attack, traumatic injury, overdose or other medical emergencies. However, …
Over the past several years, most hospitals have adopted electronic health records — a digital version of a patient’s medical chart that can contain information …
Your zip code is just a number meant to guide mail delivery, but studies show that it predicts your lifespan better than your genetic code. …
Across California, the racial and ethnic backgrounds of tiny infants are influencing the quality of medical care they receive in hospitals' neonatal intensive care units, …
During the 2015-16 school year, a trio of college students and recent graduates in the Stanford Leadership Education for Aspiring Physicians (LEAP) program were asked by …
Researchers have known that people who are poorer and less educated experience more chronic pain. But a new analysis shows that gap is even bigger …
There’s an interesting, well-known paradox in the field of heart disease that caught the attention of Fatima Rodriguez, MD, a cardiology fellow at Stanford and …
I came away from this year's United Nations Film Festival (UNAFF) reflecting on the link between health care and social justice. Stanford’s Medicine and the Muse and …
Uplifting news from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association: In the United States, black life expectancies are approaching those of whites. …
Cardiovascular disease is increasingly common in the southern United States, a trend that is related to economic conditions, access to health care and race, according …
