Innovation & Technology

Stanford’s heart transplant breakthrough precipitated years of protocol advances

Kidney removal takes longer and costs more when robots assist surgeons, a new study says.

Mechanical heart valves are often safer than natural tissue for mitral valve replacement until age 70.

Implantable devices could detect and squelch urges

Frontiers in science, technology and medicine

A health-care revolution in the making

Patients were bothered by the sounds of their eyeballs, their digestive systems, their blood. One look in their eyes, and a surgeon-scientist knew why

Video gamers help develop a better test for tuberculosis

A sampler of diagnostics emerging from Stanford

How new tools will enable us to predict and prevent disease