High-tech health
How digital medicine is improving patient care
How digital medicine is improving patient care
Young scientist helps design software that measures a surgeon’s skill
Meet a new member of the health care team: the electronic health record
Insights from a national symposium
Capturing the brain’s learning and recall motor in silicon
New technology could make your drive therapy time
In a literal test drive, I chatted with experimental robots that help manage stress — here’s how it went
Surgeon, educator and inventor builds on collaborations to advance the science of touch
Killer proteins are often propelled during cell death by trigger waves, new research suggests.
Evidence of blood-sugar level spikes in healthy people prompts call for everyone to undergo annual continuous glucose monitoring.
Activating the release of a mood-regulating chemical into a single brain circuit can improve the sociability of mice with autismlike symptoms.
Researchers have figured out how to employ a magnetic wire to detect up to 80 times more free-floating cancer cells in blood than can be found through simple blood tests.
Clinically depressed people have lower levels of a naturally occurring amino acid called acetyl-L-carnitine that helps our bodies produce energy.
Varying levels of a natural molecule that slows the spread of salmonella could explain why the pathogen doesn’t sicken everyone who ingests it.
The relatively rapid evolution of our brains could explain why humans suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but other animals don’t.
People with frequent common skin cancers could have a higher risk of developing other cancers, including blood cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer.
Dean Lloyd Minor discusses Stanford Medicine’s aim to embrace high-tech tools in health care without diminishing the crucial need for the human touch.
In his recently released autobiography, Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres, who died in December 2017, describes the emotional process of transitioning to male.
Today, some families of children diagnosed with severe congenital disorders want more options for their treating their babies.
A genetic test could help predict, earlier in life, who is at risk of getting bone fractures because of osteoporosis.
Snakebite numbers increase in California after rainy seasons and decrease after droughts, a finding that can help emergency personnel plan better for treatment.