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Chelsea Clinton, PhD, MPH, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, discussed her passion for health equity advocacy in a fireside chat with Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Stanford University.
Mental Health and Menopause: There Are Connections and Solutions
Mental health changes—including unstable moods—are common in perimenopause. Karen Adams, MD, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Stanford Program in Menopause and Healthy Aging, reassures patients that effective treatments are available.
Breaking the Virtual Care Barrier
On a typical 8-hour shift in the emergency department, 15 patients are seen via Stanford Medicine’s Virtual Visit Track (VVT). Learn how VVT revolutionizes patient care, enabling remote consultation by board-certified emergency medicine physicians, resulting in shorter stays, satisfied patients, and fewer return visits.
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IN THE NEWS
Gene Variants Foretell the Biology of Future Breast Cancers
A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that the gene sequences we inherit at conception are powerful predictors of the breast cancer type we might develop decades later and how deadly it might be.
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Sepsis Test Results in Hours, Not Days
Samuel Yang, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine, is accelerating the diagnosis of bloodstream infections, including a novel approach to quickly determine the susceptibility of bacterial pathogens to antibiotics. Dr. Yang’s test is intended to deliver results within two to three hours.
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TIME Named Stanford Research Scientist Jenna Forsyth, PhD, to the Inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health List
Jenna Forsyth, PhD, was honored as one of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year for tackling lead contamination in Bangladesh. Surprisingly, her investigation led to a commonly used spice.
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