This new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores scientific advances that are helping unlock the mysteries of the brain.
Through his words, Italo Brown’s accomplishments and his actions as an advocate for equity in health care, he has embraced the challenge of rising to the name and its expectations.
After prison, Shaka Senghor dedicated himself to being a voice for the incarcerated and leading young Black men away from lives of crime.
The daughter of a farmworker, medical student Gianna Nino-Tapias draws strength from her Mixtec ancestors.
Using racial classifications to guide care could result in poorer health outcomes for non-white patients, medical professionals say.
Across the U.S., unequal medical care is harming nonwhite new moms and their babies. Stanford experts are studying how to flip the trends.
As an African American who also has a disability, Eric Sibley provides a role model for others within academic medicine.
In addressing decades of structural racism in health care, Stanford Medicine researchers are devising new strategies to reach racial equity.
The new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine examines racial inequity and inequality in medicine, and explores initiatives to close care gaps.
Stanford Medicine magazine's most-read articles of 2020 were about COVID-19, grieving and chemo brain, a misunderstood side effect of chemotherapy.
For Black neurosurgeon Samuel Cheshier, George Floyd's killing confirmed that his country is racist; but the aftermath brought hope that change is possible.
Famous virus hunter Peter Piot, MD, PhD, recounts his firsthand battle with COVID-19, and the second wave of chronic symptoms that left him ill for months.
Stanford Medicine’s early development of testing for COVID-19 infection and antibodies helped guide government responses and stem local spread of the virus.
More than a third of U.S. adults have had symptoms of anxiety and depression during the global pandemic, so Stanford experts are figuring out how to help.
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.
Sara Cody, director of public health in California's Santa Clara County, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s trajectory and lessons learned.
