Stanford health care providers and vet technicians volunteered to help humans and animals affected by the most destructive fire in California’s history.
While working on the search and rescue team in the ruins of the Camp Fire, a Stanford emergency medicine physician helps in an unexpected way.
Asthma and pollution expert Mary Prunicki discusses the physical and mental effects of unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke.
In this commentary, Stanford tobacco expert Robert Jackler adds context to the recent decision by JUUL to stop direct social media in the U.S.
Three-time cancer survivor Fred Reiss uses comedy to share his experience with the disease.
A conversation with anesthesiologist Henry Jay Przybylo about his new memoir, "Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia."
Without access to journals via a university library or other institutional subscription, thousands of students and researchers are effectively excluded from the exchange of scientific …
Superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is a debilitating and rare inner ear disorder that affects hearing and balance. People who suffer from this can hear things …
In the last decade, the number of hospitals giving premature infants donated breast milk has nearly doubled, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. This …
Although having a child is usually considered a happy event, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of women living in the U.S. develop some form of …
It's big, blue and beneficial to hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area teens who don't have the means or the motivation to visit a traditional …
Are you chronically cranky or hungry (or, worse, hangry)? Are you clumsy or prone to nodding off during a show? Those are just a few of the …
For 10 long months, Philip Pizzo, MD, suffered from incapacitating nerve pain. Even worse, top medical experts were stumped. He describes his ordeal in a …
Suicide slices close to the heart for me, and I remember well the story of Shelby Drazan, a Woodside, Calif. 17-year-old who died by suicide …
Earlier this year my colleague reported on some pretty neat work from the labs of psychiatrist Sergiu Pasca, MD, and neurobiologist Ben Barres, MD, PhD. Researchers there figured …
Someone who studies sleep for a living surely sleeps soundly, right? Maintains a set bedtime and snoozes for a full eight hours? Not necessarily, a …
