Stanford scientists have found two genes associated with concussion. Screening football players and military might identify those at higher risk.
Olympic swimmers race about 0.39 seconds faster in the evening than in the morning, and as insignificant as that fraction of a second may seem, …
Stanford Medicine alum Leroy Sims helped design and implement the NBA bubble, which protected players from COVID-19 while allowing basketball to continue.
Stanford Medicine's Peter D'Souza shares his experience as an airway management physician who attends NFL games with the 49ers.
Stanford researchers are using specially equipped mouth guards to measure how concussion happens during head impacts in high school football players.
Concussion is a serious public health problem, but researchers don't fully understand how they happen or how to prevent them. Now, researchers find, concussion is more complex than previously thought.
Stanford orthopedic surgeon Eugene Roh is serving as a Team USA physician during the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Each summer growing up, I had a line just under my knees. Above was tan, as tan as a pale-skinned blonde can get. Below was …
Performing in a harmonious group is a key characteristic in the success of athletes, musicians and surgeons. With this in mind, physicians at the University …
Female track and field athletes no longer need to have their natural testosterone levels below a certain threshold to compete in international events, the so-called …
In an effort to better understand the lasting impact of sports injuries, Stanford physicians collaborated with the university's athletic department to enroll nearly 1,700 student …
When I was younger, the prevailing parenting advice regarding athletics and children was to identify a sport your child would enjoy early on and have …
Last month, more than 750 people gathered on the Stanford Medicine campus for the annual Health Matters event. There, Jason Dragoo, MD, team physician for …
In an effort to better understand and prevent concussions, bioengineers and clinicians at Stanford have turned athletic fields into laboratories to tackle fundamental questions about …
