Researchers make breakthrough discoveries on heart cell growth Ribhav Gupta October 7, 2015 0 Comments Two researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine have made breakthrough discoveries about heart cells that could aid scientists hoping to test drugs on lab-grown human heart cells. They have found... Read More »
Stanford Health Care CEO to leave at end of year Jeremy Quach September 29, 2015 0 Comments Stanford Health Care announced that its CEO and president, Amir Dan Rubin, will be leaving the organization at the end of the year to join UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health service platform as... Read More »
Stanford professor creates largest database of autism bioinformatics Avni Prasad September 21, 2015 2 Comments Dennis Wall, associate professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is leading the “largest-ever collaborative, open-access repository of bioinformatic data on autism.”... Read More »
NIH funds new Alzheimer’s Research Center at School of Medicine Chetana Ramaiyer July 29, 2015 0 Comments Recently, the National Institute of Health (NIH) gave Stanford the final notice of a $7.3 million award to fund an Alzheimer’s Research Center, one of more than two dozen centers that have been... Read More »
Researchers find that CT scans may increase chances of cancer Meilinda Sun July 29, 2015 0 Comments A recent study led by Stanford School of Medicine scientists has found that CT scans can cause cellular damage, with the main concern being cancer. Read More »
Researchers link Pandemrix flu vaccinations to narcolepsy Rishab Ramapriyan July 27, 2015 0 Comments An international team of researchers has found evidence that the GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix flu vaccination – which was widely distributed during the 2009 swine flu pandemic – may have caused rare... Read More »
Stanford Health Care opens patient-oriented South Bay Cancer Center Alina Abidi June 29, 2015 0 Comments On Friday, June 26, Stanford Health Care held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new South Bay Cancer Center in San Jose. Over 250 physicians, Stanford employees and community members attended the... Read More »
8,500-year-old Kennewick Man found to be genetically Native American James Noh June 27, 2015 8 Comments A new study using DNA technology found an 8,500-year-old skeleton from Kennewick, Washington to be closely related to Native Americans, refuting a previous study that concluded it was Japanese or... Read More »