Medicine

News articles classified as Medicine

Stanford Medicine —

Two key brain systems are central to psychosis

When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what’s likely to happen, psychosis can result, Stanford Medicine-led research shows.

Stanford Medicine —

Study identifies a source of severe COVID

A type of immune cell in the lungs wreaks havoc when infected by SARS-CoV-2. Blocking the virus’s entry could be a therapeutic breakthrough.

Stanford Medicine —

Generative AI develops potential antibiotics

By creating recipes for drugs that target antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new model is teaching scientists about “a chemical space humans just haven’t explored before.”

Stanford Medicine —

Keto diet could improve severe mental illness

A small clinical trial found that a ketogenic diet helped offset the metabolic side effects of antipsychotic drugs used to treat patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.