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Metabolic profiles of kids
Researchers from throughout Stanford Medicine are planning to study thousands of metabolites in babies, children and pregnant women to understand the origins of disease.
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Quickly forecasting post-stroke dementia
Stanford researchers have found that transient changes in the numbers and activation levels of a handful of circulating immune cell types can predict the likelihood of dementia one year after a stroke.
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Stanford Medicine focuses on global health
Stanford researchers, physicians and medical educators have built partnerships around the globe to try to solve some of the most vexing health problems.
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Heart defects boost heart disease risk
Even a relatively simple heart defect makes a patient much more likely to develop cardiovascular disease as an adult, Stanford researchers say.
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Brain response to mom’s voice differs in autism
Mom’s voice causes a strong response in the brains of typically developing children, but the response is weaker in children with autism, a Stanford study has demonstrated.
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Data science website launched
The online portal provides researchers with fast access to tools, data platforms, health-related databases and data-science experts.
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Opioid deaths jump fourfold in 20 years
The opioid epidemic is no longer concentrated among whites in Appalachian and Midwestern states, according to a new study from Stanford, Harvard and the University of Toronto.
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Modest drop in physician burnout
A national epidemic of physician burnout showed signs of improvement in 2017, according to researchers at Stanford, the Mayo Clinic and the American Medical Association.
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Big victory for a tiny heart
With no blood flow to his right lung, infant Carter Johnson was diagnosed with a rare condition called absent right pulmonary artery. His parents turned to Stanford Children’s Health for help.
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Spotty statin adherence leads to higher mortality
Patients who took statins less than 70 percent of the time had a 20 percent increase in mortality compared with those taking them at least 90 percent of the time, a Stanford study found.