‘Black boxes’ in Stanford Hospital operating rooms aid training and safety
A high-tech monitoring system inspired by the aviation industry is being tested in some surgery rooms at Stanford Hospital to see how well they improve safety and efficiency.
Saul Rosenberg, pioneer in cancer care, dies at 95
Rosenberg, who taught at Stanford Medicine for more than 50 years, revolutionized treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma by combining radiation and chemotherapy.
Test predicts which COVID-19 patients will grow worse
A one-time test could predict which people hospitalized with COVID-19 are likely to worsen significantly, even if they were admitted with relatively mild symptoms, according to a Stanford Medicine study.
Fat tissue’s susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection – and the “inflammatory storm cloud” that follows – could explain why obesity is a risk factor for COVID-19, say Stanford Medicine researchers.
Researchers seeking a way to predict marital happiness found that couples who reported higher satisfaction in their relationship had greater neural synchronization while watching marriage-related scenes in movies.
Physicians are more likely to experience imposter syndrome compared to other U.S. workers, according to a new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers.
Stanford pathology professor Howard Sussman dies at 87
Howard Sussman played a pivotal role in consolidating and automating Stanford Medicine’s clinical pathology laboratory, implementing an information system used for decades.
Volunteer telehealth program delivers free health care to Ukrainians
In the days immediately following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Annalicia Pickering, MD, a pediatric hospitalist with Stanford Medicine; Solomiia Savchuk, a student at the Stanford School of Medicine; and Zoe von Gerlach, a Stanford engineering graduate student, set a bold intention: Find a way to provide meaningful medical support to people in Ukraine. Just months later, the confluence of their efforts has led to the launch of a telehealth program, called Telehelp Ukraine.
