STANFORD magazine talks to Michael Snyder, “the world’s most quantified human,” about how sensors, samples and scans could fix what ails our health care system.
A Stanford study at a California prison found that although there were more breakthrough COVID-19 infections than before the emergence of the delta variant, vaccinated prison residents had few symptomatic cases.
A phenomenon tied to animal size helps determine whether animals heal without scarring after burns, and scientists have found a way to manipulate this feature to let burns heal without a scar.
A mathematical model of the body’s interacting physiological and biochemical processes shows that it may be more effective to replace red blood cell transfusion with transfusion of other fluids that are far less in demand.
Stanford faculty members are collaborating with community health workers to promote COVID-19 vaccine awareness and public health guidelines in the area’s Latinx community.
Researchers found increased concentrations of air pollutants downwind from oil and gas wells in California, likely affecting millions of Californians who live near them.
Air pollution is known to harm children’s respiratory health, but its specific impacts on infection rates have remained unclear. A new analysis provides evidence of a link between the two in low-income settings, and indicates one industry may play an outsized role in the problem.
