The goal of a decade-old program started by Stanford Medicine's Nilima Ragavan is to foster the sharing of lessons and evidence-based best practices between clinicians in the U.S. and India.
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Ask Me Anything: Everything to know about allergy season — and more
An Ask Me Anything Q&A with Stanford Medicine's Sharon Chinthrahjah, and expert on all things allergy-related.
Inequity of genetic screening: DNA tests fail non-white families more often
Research is showing that advanced methods of genetic testing aren’t equally useful for everyone: They’re less accurate for non-white families, raising concerns about how historical gaps in whose DNA gets studied produce inequities in medical care.
Could anesthesia-induced dreams wipe away trauma?
Cases of patients who recovered from trauma after dreaming under surgical anesthesia spur Stanford Medicine researchers to investigate dreaming as therapy.
Imagining virtual reality as a simple tool to treat depression
Some of the 17 million Americans afflicted with major depressive disorder each year may soon receive a surprising new prescription from their clinician: Have fun on a virtual reality device.
Serious talk about moods with bipolar disorder expert Po Wang
Often misunderstood and undertreated, bipolar disorder has received close attention from Stanford Medicine clinicians and researchers for more than 30 years.
Are long COVID sufferers falling through the cracks?
Researchers who study long COVID say its debilitating symptoms are often misdiagnosed by clinicians and dismissed by employers or loved ones because so little is known about the new syndrome.
Large language models in the clinic: AI enters the physician-patient mix
Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction.
What really happens to our memory as we age?
A Q&A with a Stanford neuroscientist on dementia, healthy aging and memory loss — and how we can protect our brains in later life.
PA student, a cancer survivor, rolls with the punches
She was a first-year PA student at Stanford Medicine when an MRI scan revealed that Melanie Shojinaga had a brain tumor.
For those with an alcohol problem, are non-alcoholic beverages a wise choice?
Q&A with a Stanford addiction specialist on whether non-alcoholic beverages are helpful or harmful for those with alcohol use disorders
A hunger to help people brought her to both surgery, cooking
Carlie Arbaugh is dedicated to both surgery and cooking because they demand meticulous attention to detail and the ability to think on your feet.
At the intersection of science and humanity, he found a sweet spot
Medicine has been the way of connecting both of Brian Smith's passions. “With medicine I could have the intellectual curiosity, but also the chance to talk with people and enjoy the human experience.”
New cardiovascular risk calculator includes social determinants of health, excludes race
Many social determinants of health can influence a patient’s risk, but Palaniappan and fellow researchers have noticed, from working with data from patients around the nation, that race is not among the most accurate or equitable.
Why precision medicine’s targeted interventions may help prevent dangerously early births
Approximately 10% of babies worldwide are born three or more weeks before their due date -- making premature birth the leading cause of death for children under 5 globally.
Advocating for individuals with disabilities is personal for this med student
Inspired by her brother Saaz’s experiences, often tagging along on his doctor’s appointments, Binisha Patel was drawn to medicine.