For Black neurosurgeon Samuel Cheshier, George Floyd's killing confirmed that his country is racist; but the aftermath brought hope that change is possible.
A pervasive myth in medicine is that doctors shouldn't talk about death with their patients. But Stephanie Harman, MD, knows better. During her first week of …
Registration is now open for Stanford Medicine X | CHANGE — the event will take place at Stanford Medicine September 20-22.
Two color-changing compounds found in scorpion venom can help kill the bacteria responsible for staphylococcus and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Empathy isn't determined by our genes, it's a skill that improves with practice, explains Stanford psychologist-author Jamil Zaki.
I survived Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a young adult about twenty years ago, thanks to the chemotherapy and radiotherapy that I received at Stanford Hospital as …
Thanks to recent advances in medicine, technology and research, most premature babies born in the United States face better odds of surviving than ever before. Yet, …
Researchers in the Stanford Computational Imaging Group have developed a new virtual reality headset that takes into account how the human eye focuses and processes depth. Current display …
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
A few years ago, a team led by Stanford researcher Krishna Shenoy, PhD, published a paper that proposed a new theory for how neurons in …
Second-year medical student Eric Trac isn't one to shy away from a challenge. Trac's family is from Vietnam and he didn't speak much English as a child, …
Going back to school inspired Stanford law professor Joseph Bankman, JD, with more than new perspectives on his legal work. Through his experience in the Palo …
People don't usually associate teenagers with heart problems, but congenital heart defects are more common than you might think. A recent Healthier, Happy Lives Blog …
As a scholar with ties in both humanities and medicine, I'm always interested when those realms intersect. Medical understanding of sexuality has been heavily influenced by …
Remember being drilled multiplication tables? Or taking a timed math exam? These have been common activities in school, but Stanford experts say they're not really helpful to kids …
