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    Nutrition July 17, 2025
    About that ultra-processed food

    A Stanford Medicine research dietitian spells out what ultra-processed means, why such foods are unhealthy and how to eat a healthy diet in a world filled with them.

  • Aging & Geriatrics July 09, 2025
    Organs’ biological ages predict disease

    A blood-test analysis developed at Stanford Medicine can determine the “biological ages” of 11 separate organ systems in individuals’ bodies and predict the health consequences.

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    Cancer July 08, 2025
    The legacy of Paul Kalanithi

    His gift to the world was a poignant telling of a promising young life taken by cancer a decade ago. Still today, the Stanford Medicine neurosurgeon's wife Lucy receives notes of gratitude weekly.

  • Medical Education July 02, 2025
    Tri-Valley residency program

    The first cohort of residents at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley arrive in Pleasanton to start a three-year program in family medicine.

  • Parkinson's July 01, 2025
    Slowing cell death in Parkinson’s disease

    Stanford Medicine-led research in mice indicates that inhibiting the LRRK2 enzyme could stabilize patients with a type of Parkinson’s disease.

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  • Cancer February 03, 2025
    Lifting the burden of cancer

    Advances in cancer science, prevention and care

  • Pediatrics January 23, 2025
    Practice doesn't always make perfect

    Seizures worsen by co-opting one of the brain’s mechanisms for learning

  • Patient Care January 23, 2025
    The art of kintsugi

    Together, two physicians find life lessons at its edge

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Research Matters
  • Cancer May 19, 2025
    ‘The first experiments produced just jaw-dropping results’

    Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje is pursuing a cure for a deadly pediatric brain cancer – and reshaping our understanding of how cancer and brain development intersect.

  • ‘For many people, waiting is not an option’

    Stanford bioengineer Stanley Qi is developing advanced gene-editing tools to treat life-threatening diseases and slow the onset of neurological aging.

  • Microbiology May 06, 2025
    ‘We can change diet to generate a healthier microbiome and a healthy individual’

    Microbiologists Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are working to understand the complex microbial community that resides within the human gut and its potential for helping people live healthier, longer lives.

  • ‘It really is the holy grail of curative medicine’

    Stanford bioengineer Mark Skylar-Scott is on a “science fiction” quest to 3D print human hearts and other organs on demand, using cells from a patient’s own body.

  • How emotions arise from sensory signals

    Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, Stanford scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.

  • Patient Care May 28, 2025
    More access to care in Redwood City

    A new building on Stanford Medicine’s Redwood City campus will house primary care, women’s health, cardiovascular care and other specialties.

  • 5 Things: Measles

    With vaccination rates dropping, infectious disease experts worry that more people among the most vulnerable populations will be at serious risk.

  • Emergency Medicine April 14, 2025
    Stanford Medicine Life Flight’s new helicopter

    The upgrade brings one of the most advanced emergency medical helicopters in the world to Northern California. The new aircraft expands in-flight treatment capabilities and improves fast, safe transport of patients in critical condition.

Insights
  • Skin Cancers June 23, 2025
    What the Science Says: Sunscreen

    Somehow, the idea that we need to protect our skin from the sun has blurred in recent years — largely due to online misinformation. We asked dermatologists about the science on sunscreen products.

  • 5 Things: Measles

    With vaccination rates dropping, infectious disease experts worry that more people among the most vulnerable populations will be at serious risk.

  • 5 Things: Keto and mental illness

    As ketogenic therapy gains momentum in treating neuropsychiatric disorders, we asked Stanford Medicine's expert Shebani Sethi for the key takeaways.

  • Addiction April 01, 2025
    5 Things: GLP-1s and addiction

    Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Anna Lembke unpacks the potential of FDA-approved weight-reducing GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic as tools in treating addiction.

  • Stanford neurobiologist’s research on brain development paves the way for Alzheimer’s solutions

    Carla Shatz, famous for discovering how neural connections develop early in life, is using that knowledge to work on the problem of how they can later deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Health Policy June 27, 2025
    Supreme Court Upholds ACA’s Free Preventive Care Mandate

    The Court finds that preventive services mandated by the Affordable Care Act are constitutional.

  • Liver Cancer June 16, 2025
    Breaking Barriers in Cancer Care

    A generous gift brings cutting-edge therapy for liver cancer to Stanford Medicine.

  • Cardiology June 12, 2025
    Designing blood vessels for 3D printed hearts

    Stanford researchers have developed a faster, more precise way to model and print vascular systems, solving a critical challenge in fabricating transplantable organs from patients’ own cells.

Awards & Honors

  • Awards & Honors June 17, 2025
    Awards for teaching, patient care and more

    More than 60 awards were given to faculty, staff, residents and students at Stanford Medicine in recognition of their outstanding contributions during the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Awards & Honors May 15, 2025
    $20 million to study viral community

    Investigators at the newly established Viromes Across Space(s) and Time Center will help to catalog human-dwelling viruses and shed light on the virome.

  • Awards & Honors May 14, 2025
    Statement from Stanford School of Medicine on Alum Casey Means

    Casey Means, MD, has been nominated to serve as the United States surgeon general.

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