Promising new cognitive and behavioral therapies are helping patients manage and even cure PTSD without drugs, Debra Kaysen explains on this episode of The Future of Everything.
A new category of depression identified by Stanford Medicine researchers affects a quarter of patients, and it’s not effectively treated by commonly prescribed antidepressants.
Stanford Medicine brain cancer researchers joined other thought leaders in Washington, D.C., to discuss what the Cancer Moonshot initiative could mean.
Bert Patenaude’s new book, Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921-1923, recounts the pivotal role U.S. doctors played in saving lives.
Stanford researchers Stephen Luby and Jenna Forsyth found that lead chromate, a coloring agent used to make turmeric more yellow, is the leading source of high lead levels in pregnant women in Bangladesh.
Dean Lloyd Minor interviews climate activist Catherine Coleman Flowers about the root causes of systemic public sanitation infrastructure lapses, the increasing threat of climate change, and how her research and advocacy have expanded across the country.
The first in a two-part series looks at the science behind increasingly popular new diabetes drugs and whether they really are a golden ticket to weight loss.
Screening everyone over 35 would increase life expectancy and reduce the number of people requiring dialysis or transplant, say Stanford Medicine researchers.
Researchers get their first glimpse of how magnetic stimulation works to dissipate severe depression – by reversing the flow of abnormal brain signals.
Most kids undergoing radiation therapy for cancer can stay still without anesthesia if they watch videos during treatment, a Stanford Medicine study found.
Stanford Medicine researchers used AI to analyze online discussions related to the life-saving cholesterol drug and found a troubling amount of negativity and misinformation.
Triple-negative breast cancer patients who took more than one course of antibiotics after diagnosis were found to have an increased risk of death. The gut microbiome is a likely link.
Tiny circles of DNA that defy accepted laws of genetics spark a cancerous transformation in precancerous cells, according to a Stanford Medicine-led study.
Stanford researchers and the CDC are collaborating to increase awareness of, and access to, hepatitis B testing in adults to prevent severe liver disease and virus transmission.
A machine learning-aided study on heart shape found that roundness occurs more commonly in healthy organs than previously believed – but can also act as a genetic indicator of problems lying ahead.
Researchers tested a padded helmet cover meant to protect football players from head injury and found that it likely offers little benefit for the majority of hits players sustain.
