Stanford Medicine

10/10/2025

Living with a chronic illness takes a toll on mental health, too. Psychologist Diana Naranjo’s advice: be kind to yourself, lean on those who understand, and remember that therapy helps.

To psychologist Diana Naranjo, the emotional weight of living with chronic illness is equal to physical challenges patients face.

10/10/2025

After exhausting his chemotherapy options, Jeanie Kortum’s husband was close to death, leaving her desperate for a new treatment. She found it in CAR-T cell therapy, which uses a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. Kortum writes about the journey of hope that followed.

In a personal essay, a woman whose husband’s CAR-T cell therapy success gave him a second chance at life chronicles their journey.

10/09/2025

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and School of Engineering teams draw on artificial intelligence and human ingenuity to build a diabetes dashboard that filters blood sugar data in real time to easily spot struggling patients.

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10/09/2025

Many people are turning to ma*****na for medical purposes and it may help for some. But older adults, in particular, should be aware of the risks to their health, Stanford Medicine experts caution.

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10/09/2025

Founded by psychiatrist Anna Lembke when few physicians knew how to help patients with addiction, a pioneering Stanford Medicine fellowship program continues a legacy of preparing new generations of addiction specialists.

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10/08/2025

Since Stanford Medicine geneticist Ron Davis pivoted 12 years ago to study severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome — a disease that has debilitated his son — revelations both large and small give Davis hope that research will find a way forward.

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10/08/2025

Researchers use a machine learning algorithm that analyzes continuous glucose monitor data to identify a patient’s diabetes subtype and quickly find lifestyle management practices or treatments that work for their specific disease.

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10/07/2025

A program aimed at helping children and teens reach and maintain healthy body weights to become widely available to health professionals and community leaders so they can replicate Stanford Medicine’s face-to-face approach everywhere.

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10/07/2025

In this week's episode of the Health Compass podcast, Maya Adam discusses science’s most urgent ethical challenges with Drew Endy. From the misuse of AI to the promise and risks of synthetic biology in advancing health and medicine.

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10/06/2025

In the realm of memories, “where” holds special importance. Where did I leave my keys? Where did I eat dinner last night? Where did I first meet that friend? Recalling locations is necessary for daily life, yet spatial memory — which keeps track of “where” — is one of the first cognitive abilities to fade in old age. And deficits earlier in life can be a telltale sign of dementia.

Now, researchers at Stanford Medicine and their colleagues are uncovering what goes awry in older brains when spatial memory falters and whether these changes can be prevented.

Studying mice of different ages, Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.

10/06/2025

Daniel Jarosz, PhD, associate professor of chemical and systems biology and of developmental biology, has been appointed the first senior associate dean for basic science. He is the inaugural appointment to this newly created position, which will support basic science faculty across the Stanford School of Medicine.

Jarosz is the inaugural appointment to the newly created position, which will support basic science faculty throughout the Stanford School of Medicine.