In the News
for the week of August 18, 2025
- News Center - Stanford Medicine
Alcohol consumption and your health: What the science says
Is a nightly glass of wine — or two, even — good for you? Bad for you? Or somewhere in between? Stanford experts discuss the health implications of moderate alcohol consumption and how the guidelines have changed. Keith Humphreys, the Esther Ting Memorial Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor, by courtesy, of health policy, provides comment.
- News Center - Stanford Medicine
Ultrasound could deliver drugs with fewer side effects
In a new study in rats, Stanford Medicine scientists used ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to deliver ketamine and anesthetics to precise targets in the body. Raag Airan, assistant professor of radiology and, by courtesy, of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of materials science and engineering, is intereviewed.