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Better-prepared emergency departments could save kids’ lives cost-effectively, Stanford Medicine-led study finds
About 80% of emergency departments aren’t fully prepared to care for kids. Upgrading them would be a highly cost-effective way to save lives, a study found.
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Childhood sleep disturbance linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviors two years later
Kids with highly disturbed sleep or frequent nightmares at age 9 or 10 were more likely than sound sleepers to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors by age 12, a Stanford Medicine-led study found.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Molecular shifts in our 40s, 60s
Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.
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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.
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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.
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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.