Experts propose revising the legal and medical standard on declaring someone dead based on respiratory function and likelihood of consciousness rather than cessation of brain function.
Stanford Medicine psychiatrist David Spiegel discusses the impact community grief has on our health and what we can do to care for ourselves and others.
Research by SIEPR senior fellows David Chan and Matthew Gentzkow challenges the premise that different approaches to patient care are a result of practitioner preference and suggests that policies to boost skills could improve health care efficiency.
Marijuana use and heart-attack risk were correlated in a large human study, Stanford scientists and their collaborators found. A molecule in soybeans may counteract these effects.
Around age 13, kids’ brains shift from focusing on their mothers’ voices to favor new voices, part of the biological signal driving teens to separate from their parents, a Stanford Medicine study has found.
Most people who lose their sense of smell and taste with COVID-19 regain it within a month, says Stanford Medicine’s Zara Patel. But those who don’t struggle for answers.
Quenton Bubb, Esther Elonga, and Tania Fabo have been named members of the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supports the graduate education of U.S. immigrants and children of immigrants.
