Pesticides and kids
Brain scans of a group of adolescents in California’s Salinas Valley show a direct link between pesticides they were exposed to in utero and certain brain functions.
Health Policy
Expanding on unparalleled patient care
The best possible resources with the best possible environment for precision health
Battling burnout
Programs that address the stresses of being a physician begin to show results
The scientist
A conversation with NIH director Francis Collins
Toward a world without poverty
A conversation with Jim Yong Kim, the doctor who led the World Bank
A better brick
A quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material
Cultivating women leaders
A movement takes off to put more women at the top in medicine
New Health Trends Report
A proliferation of data is driving more democratization in health care, according to Stanford Medicine’s second annual Health Trends Report, published in December.
New children’s health leader
Paul King, a longtime leader in children’s and women’s health, has been tapped to lead children’s health at Stanford Medicine.
A universal yearning for healthy lives
Improving global health through research, training and care