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Stanford Medicine reports on precision health
The winter issue of the magazine details work at Stanford advancing precision health. Also included is a Q&A with Tom Brokaw and an excerpt from neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s best-selling memoir When Breath Becomes Air.
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New TB test could be game-changer
A simple blood test that can accurately diagnose active tuberculosis could make it easier and cheaper to control a disease that kills 1.5 million people every year.
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Gamers’ biochemistry insights published
Video-gamers have co-authored a paper describing a new set of rules for determining the difficulty of designing structures composed of RNA molecules.
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Study finds lower-back MRIs overused at VA
More than one-third of lower back MRIs conducted through the Department of Veterans Affairs are inappropriate, according to a new study.
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Symposium to explore gender differences in heart disease, treatment
Heart experts will convene Feb. 24 to discuss the role gender differences play in the research and treatment of heart disease.
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New chair of pathology named at Stanford Medicine
Thomas Montine, a neuropathologist, is a national expert in the study of the molecular and structural causes of cognitive decline in aging. He comes to Stanford from the University of Washington.
