A new radioactive agent developed at Stanford can identify whether a widely used lung cancer drug is likely to be effective.
Study finds even a modest weight gain causes the body to fluctuate on the molecular level, but most changes revert back when weight is lost.
Stanford researchers have developed an improved method to detect some biomarkers, a technique they hope could more precisely detect diseases such as cancer.
By identifying abnormally expressed proteins in the eye, a Stanford-led team matched existing drugs with these proteins to quell patients' symptoms.
Consider it a pre-Thanksgiving brain teaser. The image at the right is something called an autostereogram -- a three-dimensional picture that can be seen only by …
“Every one of us has a passion to improve human health,” said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford’s medical school, as he welcomed participants to …
The transition from health to illness remains little understood, but it is a critical component of efforts to begin predicting and preventing disease, the goal …
The Project Baseline study is an ambitious endeavor with a potentially transformative payoff. Launched in April after years of designing and planning by Verily, an Alphabet …
If you live close to an old-fashioned ice cream parlor (like I do), then you're more likely to indulge than if, say, you live near …
It can take years for a researcher studying a rare disease to collect enough patient data to begin the analysis phase of a study. But …
Once someone has a stroke, the likelihood for a second stroke jumps up. And that recurrent stroke may cause further damage to the already injured …
Clinical trials, in their current incarnation, are ill-suited for the nimble, personalized precision health era, a a panel of speakers at the Big Data in …
Your fitness tracker knows how fast your heart beats when you bicycle to work and how your heart flip-flops when your sweetie surprises you with a kiss. …
Perhaps you're familiar (or very familiar) with PubMed, the go-to database for biomedical research. Or, perhaps you've spent a rainy Sunday exploring historical anatomical images. …
American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown began her career at the AHA three decades ago, when heart health was defined by healthy eating, exercise and …
Stanford Medicine's vision of precision health is taking shape in exciting, and perhaps unexpected, ways, Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, wrote in a recent Fortune commentary. As …
