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Lucy Kalanithi five years later

The Stanford Medicine 2020 Health Trends Report shows physicians and medical students preparing for a health care future improved by data science and technological advances.

The discovery that it might be possible to eliminate Ecstasy’s addictive properties could increase the drug’s potential for use in psychiatry, new research shows.

Even teens who aren’t especially thin could be dangerously ill from atypical anorexia nervosa, according to new research.

Stents or bypass surgeries might not be needed for patients with stable heart disease who don't have symptoms of chest pain.

An excerpt from Dean Lloyd Minor's book: Discovering Precision Health

Formerly conjoined, the girls are flourishing

A common mutation that causes facial flushing and inflammation in response to alcohol can lead to biochemical changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.

The average body temperature has dropped 0.05 F every decade since the 1800s, analysis finds.

A scientist’s eye for detail catches mixed-up frog cells reassembling