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  • Yoga, exercise help incontinence

    Stanford Medicine-led research finds that 12 weeks of low-impact exercise classes reduced daily episodes of urinary incontinence by more than half.

  • Students celebrate start of education

    With bright white coats and shiny stethoscopes, the medical and physician assistant students at Stanford Medicine mark the beginning of their training.

  • Stanford Medicine explores cells

    The new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine covers research on cells, providing insights into basic biology, human health and the power of curiosity.

  • Dikran Horoupian dies at 91

    Dikran Horoupian, the director of neuropathology at Stanford Medicine for nearly two decades, focused on degenerative and neoplastic disease and launched a muscle and nerve biopsy lab.

  • Dialysis may not be best option

    A Stanford Medicine-led study found that frail older patients who waited to start dialysis died only nine days earlier on average — and spent more time at home — than those who began treatment immediately.

  • Hal Holman dies at 99

    Hal Holman staffed Stanford Medicine’s newly opened Palo Alto campus in the 1960s and was an influential rheumatologist whose research unearthed critical knowledge about autoimmunity.

  • Molecular shifts in our 40s, 60s

    Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.

  • How taurine metabolism affects weight

    A study in mice found a connection between the amino acid taurine and an enzyme called PTER — highlighting a metabolic pathway that links diet, genetics and body weight.

  • Skin-to-skin good for preemies’ brains

    Babies born very early had stronger neurodevelopmental performance at 1 year if they received more skin-to-skin care as newborns, a Stanford Medicine study found.

  • Transplant list not ranked by medical need

    More babies and children survive the wait for a heart transplant than in the past, but improvements are due to better medical care, not changes to wait-list rules, a new study finds.


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