Health & Medicine

The FDA finally gave the green light to bemotrizinol. Stanford Medicine experts share why it’s considered a massive leap forward for skin health in the U.S.

Neuroscientists have found compelling evidence for a neural network dedicated to language in the adult human brain, with potential implications for treating language problems after stroke or brain injury.

Peptides are everywhere online, touted for looksmaxxing, muscle building, and weight loss. Stanford Medicine experts explain what is – and isn’t – backed by evidence.

Stanford researchers have discovered that tau can interfere with the tiny powerhouses inside nerve cells, potentially triggering damage linked to Alzheimer’s and related neurodegenerative disorders.

A discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists overturns longstanding dogma and could point the way toward new therapies for neurodegenerative disease.

A Stanford Medicine app found that older adults’ daily travel range shrank as temperatures rose, potentially limiting social, physical, and community activity.

A molecule that increases by a thousandfold in pythons after they eat holds promise for a weight-loss drug.

Children with multiple food allergies have several treatment options – including omalizumab and oral immunotherapy – a Stanford Medicine trial has found.

Researchers at Stanford Medicine developed a tool called the Ribo-Tweezer to pluck individual components out of a mature ribosome, finding a surprising role for a protein called RACK1.

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate, hypothesize, and speed up scientific exploration.