Stanford Hospital tested a drive-through triage-and-care system that could become the standard for how hospitals respond when thousands need care at the height of a pandemic.

Tagged: pandemic, Human Health, Medicine

You know the guy — he’s your Facebook friend. The one who knows everyone. Secure at the center of a dense web of relationships, he suggests causes and reconnects old friends like a skilled matchmaker. Scientists have known for some time that biological molecules interact with one another in a similarly complex pattern. Now researchers have determined that hamstringing these molecular powerbrokers is a good way to derail processes such as cancer development.

Tagged: Human Health, Medicine

The Canary Foundation and the School of Medicine announced June 9 their commitment of $20 million to create the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, a research center that will be dedicated to improving the ability spot cancers early on.

Tagged: Health Research, Human Health, Medicine

Cocooned in tubes and wires, too fragile to be held, small, sick newborns fight for life in neonatal intensive care units. Though many go home healthy, the babies' harrowing starts leave indelible marks on their parents.

Tagged: premature birth, stress, Human Health, Medicine

With just $399 and a bit of saliva in a cup, consumers can learn about their genetic risk for diseases. Now, thanks to social networking sites, they can also share that information with family, friends and even strangers on the Internet. This sounds relatively harmless, but according to Stanford bioethicists, sharing genetic information online raises a host of ethical questions.

Tagged: ethics, genetics, Human Health, Medicine

Once symptoms start, there's only a tiny window of time for stroke victims to get life-saving treatment. Now, research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has cracked that window open a bit wider.

Tagged: stroke, Human Health, Medicine

Stanford professor Marion Buckwalter is intent on discovering how the brain repairs itself after stroke—the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States

Tagged: stroke, Human Health, Medicine

Human immune cells communicate constantly with one another as they coordinate to fight off infection and other threats. Now Stanford researchers have shown that muffling a key voice in this conversational patter is an early step in the progression of human cancers.

Tagged: cancer, Human Health, Medicine

A new survey from the School of Medicine suggests that a significant number of Asian Americans living in California adopt unhealthy sun-exposure behaviors as they become more westernized.

Tagged: cancer, Human Health, Medicine

Corporate practices are having effects not just on polar bears and wetlands, but also they may be killing human beings, says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Tagged: stress, Human Health, Business