Dietary management drugs have transformed Type 2 diabetes care, but daily injection routines are challenging for some patients. A new hydrogel could mean shots just three times a year.
A new Stanford study uses behavioral analysis, neural engineering, electrophysiology, and math to explore how mice decide whether to eat or drink when they are both hungry and thirsty.
National guidelines that rely on age and smoking history are failing non-white patients, research found. A risk-based method does a better job of eliminating disparities.
Simple dietary changes like replacing beef with chicken in a burrito or choosing plant-based milk over dairy could reduce the nation’s food-related carbon footprint by more than a third if universally adopted.
A new study shows nurse practitioners perform as well as physicians when prescribing medications for older adults. The finding could be useful as states look to expand access to primary care.
Stanford researchers who previously pioneered a new kind of protein degradation have mapped out how the process works, which could lead to new drug therapies for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and for rare childhood enzyme disorders.
Precision medicine lets doctors individualize treatment for a disease whose symptoms manifest differently across the hundreds of millions of people who have it.