Reimagining survival
Better cancer diagnostics and treatments are in the works
Better cancer diagnostics and treatments are in the works
Stanford Cancer Institute is striving to change the story for people with cancer
College student's cancer story epitomizes challenges of treating teens and young aduts.
Understanding chemo brain
Future doctors realize the power of empathy through early patient connections
Cancer patient and med student trade journal in telling their stories
Using genomics to guide personalized cancer treatment
Lucy Kalanithi five years later
A philanthropist’s challenge grant will make nearly $90 million in new financial assistance available to eliminate medical school debt for incoming students in need.
The Stanford Medicine 2020 Health Trends Report shows physicians and medical students preparing for a health care future improved by data science and technological advances.
The discovery that it might be possible to eliminate Ecstasy’s addictive properties could increase the drug’s potential for use in psychiatry, new research shows.
A common mutation that causes facial flushing and inflammation in response to alcohol can lead to biochemical changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.
Even teens who aren’t especially thin could be dangerously ill from atypical anorexia nervosa, according to new research.
Stents or bypass surgeries might not be needed for patients with stable heart disease who don't have symptoms of chest pain.
The average body temperature has dropped 0.05 F every decade since the 1800s, analysis finds.
Stanford Medicine is taking a multimodal approach to defeating cancer by developing precision cures and identifying ways to predict and prevent the disease.
Researchers use wearable motion-sensor data gathered from surgeons at work to understand how movement, decisions and approaches correlate with quality outcomes.
A world without disease seems impossible, but is it? A new book by Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, makes the case that this futuristic vision is within our grasp.
Three years after intensively surgery at Stanford to separate them, former conjoined twins are thriving, learning and growing as individuals.
Scientists interested in developing synthetic cells are encouraged by a discovery that frog egg cells can reorganize after being scrambled.
Data gathered on the different ways we age could help people zero in on health-risk factors and ways to address them.