A Stanford study explores the factors that are important to help a community recover from a disaster such as an epidemic.
Future physicians may one day be practicing more as overseers rather than decision makers, argues Stanford medical student Steven Zhang.
A new study found that oncologists have divergent views on how to use “value” to guide cancer treatment recommendations.
Firearm violence as a public health problem was the focus of a recent Stanford Medicine forum. Physicians should conduct more research on gun violence and advocate for gun safety with patients, presenters said.
A new report out of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department takes a science-first approach to detailing the boons of physical activity for human health.
Should research findings be moved to the clinic as soon as possible or should things move more slowly for patient safety? A med student explores the issues.
In a talk at Stanford, Jonathan Perlin of HCA Healthcare discusses how electronic health records can help doctors improve care in a learning health system.
In her role as a Stanford anesthesiologist, Alyssa Burgart, MD, doesn’t see patients with spinal muscular atrophy as often as the neurologists who regularly treat …
People living in the United States spend more per capita on prescription drugs than people living in any other country. In an effort to make …
There's good news, of sorts, on the gun violence research front -- namely that there's an increasing number of studies on the issue, which has …
CVS Health recently announced it would buy Aetna, the country’s third-largest health insurance company, for $69 billion -- a deal that could revamp the nation’s …
Californians with public insurance, like Medicaid, or no insurance, have lower survival rates for several types of cancer than those with private insurance, according to …
High-quality health care tends to be expensive, but if you ask Brian Brady, MD; Nicholas Bott, PsyD; and Vicky Woo, MD, they'll tell you it doesn't …
Earlier this week I wrote about a landmark paper in the Annals of Family Medicine in which Stanford researchers, led by health care policy expert Arnold …
Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, was one of three expert witnesses who spoke at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on …
What makes a physician's practice great? The ability to deliver high-quality health care at the most affordable cost is one key component that benefits patients, …
