Health

News articles classified as Health

Stanford Medicine magazine —

Inside the effort to green the OR

More than 8% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the health care industry. Stanford Medicine leaders are working to shift the trend.

Stanford Medicine Children's Health —

Back-to-school vaccinations

Pediatrician Paula Tamashiro Tairaku explains what parents need to know about what’s required and why.

Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health —

Meet ALMA, the health information chatbot

Medical student Gabriela Asturias brought health information to millions of Guatemalans during the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of a friendly chatbot.

Stanford Medicine —

Prisons are stealth incubators

Jason Andrews explains why tracking and treating tuberculosis in prisons is critical to combating the disease worldwide.

Stanford Engineering —

The future of trauma therapy

Promising new cognitive and behavioral therapies are helping patients manage and even cure PTSD without drugs, Debra Kaysen explains on this episode of The Future of Everything.

Cooking on gas stoves emits benzene

About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.