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.
Category: Lung Health
Sick of being sick? As respiratory viruses roar back, experts offer guidance
Nationwide, the percentage of health care visits for flulike symptoms ticked up above the baseline at the start of November and has remained elevated ever since, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AI, medicine and race: Why ending ‘structural racism’ in health care now is crucial
Health care providers must reckon with inherent race-based biases in medicine, which can reinforce false stereotypes in algorithms and lead to improper treatment recommendations or late diagnoses.
Heartbeats and Hiccups: Education for a sustainable future
A Stanford Medicine medical student and anesthesiologist discuss how to prepare physicians in the face of climate change.
Unconventional Paths: Merging computation and biology
Purvesh Khatri has followed a winding path to medicine -- one that started with a hate for biology and a career in engineering.
Runaway immune reactions cause long COVID breathing problems
Researchers at Stanford Medicine have investigated the mechanism of pulmonary fibrosis caused by long COVID.
How menthol cigarette ads target Black people, women and teens
As FDA weighs a ban on menthol in cigarettes, study shows how the tobacco industry targeted products to women, teens and Black people.
Mucus: Outtakes on a molecule of major significance
Researchers are making connections between the role of mucus and human health -- both in the brain and the lungs.
Climate change impact may affect kids more severely
Researchers discuss the impact of climate change on children and suggest its impact on their health might be more severe, compared to adults.
Caring for the sickest COVID-19 patients: An ICU story
Early in the pandemic, with few clues about how to treat critically-ill COVID-19 patients, Stanford’s ICU team developed and shared expertise to save lives.
COVID-19 adds urgency to synthetic film that aids breathing
The COVID-19 pandemic gives new relevance to a synthetic substance developed by Stanford researchers that could help respiratory patients breathe easier.
“Poor air quality affects everybody” — How to protect yourself and clean the air
A Stanford allergy specialist discusses how we can combat the negative health impacts of air pollution, in California and worldwide.
Genetic takeover: How the bacteria behind Legionnaires’ disease use host cells
Scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 screens to reveal more about how the bacteria behind Legionnaire's disease infects humans.
Breathing: A reflection on living with asthma
In an excerpt from a piece that originally appeared in Months to Years, writer Dawn Newton looks back on a childhood with severe asthma.
How drug-resistant bugs grow in CF patients’ lungs
Some viruses help drug-resistant bacteria grow in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, new Stanford research shows.
Immune cell turned biomarker: Predicting severity of lung scarring
By scouting for a particular immune cell in the blood, scientists can tell which patients with a lung-scarring disease are at higher risk for death.