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A new study, published in Scientific Reports and authored by Stanley Rockson and PhD candidate Catharine Bowman, describ...
10/14/2026

A new study, published in Scientific Reports and authored by Stanley Rockson and PhD candidate Catharine Bowman, describes the results of a clinical trial testing the experimental oral medication acebilustat in study volunteers with lymphedema of the lower limbs. The results indicate the drug effectively alleviated many of the condition's most burdensome symptoms.

Lymphedema affects roughly 10 million people in the U.S. and occurs when excess lymph fluid builds up in the arms and legs instead of draining through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream. Rockson describes it as a common but underappreciated condition, and there is currently no approved medication to treat it.

Read more: https://stan.md/3WhqOS1

What exactly is biological age? Which numbers matter? What do they mean?Stanford Department of Medicine's David Rehkopf ...
10/13/2026

What exactly is biological age? Which numbers matter? What do they mean?

Stanford Department of Medicine's David Rehkopf weighs in. Wearables and some consumer blood panels now estimate biological age, but Rehkopf urges caution. "These things often don't have a lot of strong data on outcomes behind them," he said. He also notes that a real, sustained shift in health can take years to show up on an epigenetic blood test, so results may not reflect recent habits.

David Rehkopf shares his insights in this Stanford Medicine article: https://stan.md/4yG7yw9

Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu is helping bring safeguarding into the IOC Research Centres' broader agenda on athlete health and s...
10/12/2026

Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu is helping bring safeguarding into the IOC Research Centres' broader agenda on athlete health and safety. At the 2026 International Olympic Committee Research Centres Meeting in Edinburgh, she led a session on interpersonal violence and safeguarding in sport.

Her presentation covered findings and research priorities from the IOC's 2024 safeguarding consensus. It's exciting to see her leading global conversations about athlete well-being.

Visit https://bit.ly/4y1fA1s to listen to Shireen Heidari join CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Abhishek Bhardwaj in a di...
10/09/2026

Visit https://bit.ly/4y1fA1s to listen to Shireen Heidari join CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Abhishek Bhardwaj in a discussion about managing burnout and remaining true to oneself while working in health care.

Meet Poonam Hosamani and Kevin Keet, the Stanford educator duo behind an award-winning AI curriculum that helps resident...
10/09/2026

Meet Poonam Hosamani and Kevin Keet, the Stanford educator duo behind an award-winning AI curriculum that helps residents use AI thoughtfully, sharpen clinical reasoning and keep pace as the tech evolves.

As Hosamani shares, "We are really doing our best to infuse critical thinking [and an] ethical, responsible approach to integrating AI into clinical practice." Simply eschewing AI because of the risk of deskilling is not an option for a university focused on evolution and building a better future.

"AI is here to stay, and if we don't keep up … we are going to be left behind."

Learn more: https://stanford.io/4zeNMYf

Ziad Obermeyer, a physician-researcher at UC Berkeley, joined this week's Medicine Grand Rounds."The key thing, that's v...
10/08/2026

Ziad Obermeyer, a physician-researcher at UC Berkeley, joined this week's Medicine Grand Rounds.

"The key thing, that's very easy to forget in today's world of medical discovery, is that a lot of discoveries come from a person noticing a thing," he explained. "And specifically, a person noticing a link between a really salient and automatic outcome, and an unusual feature of some signal."

Obermeyer was named one of TIME'S 100 most influential people in AI, and his research uncovering racial bias in healthcare algorithms helped spark a national reckoning with how machine learning can distort medical decision-making.

Stanford Emergence accelerates solutions for preventive healthcare by developing educational programs and building a cro...
10/08/2026

Stanford Emergence accelerates solutions for preventive healthcare by developing educational programs and building a cross-sector community for impact. Last Friday, more than 60 innovation leaders from industry, the social sector, and academia gathered for the Emergence Health Industry Collaborative, which was co-hosted with Inflect Health.

Working in partnership with Natividad Medical Center, participants set out to identify opportunities for innovation in whole-person health and preventive healthcare. NMC is a California public healthcare system that serves Monterey County's diverse residents, including vulnerable, underinsured, and agricultural worker populations.

For Permsuk ("Perm") Lamprasitipon, finance director for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, the numbers...
10/07/2026

For Permsuk ("Perm") Lamprasitipon, finance director for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, the numbers never tell the whole story. "Behind every budget line, forecast, and financial report are people," she says.

That belief took shape over a long road. Perm's parents moved from Hong Kong to Thailand, where she was born and raised between two cultures. She later came to the U.S. as an international graduate student and had to build a support network from scratch, which showed her how important it is to make people feel welcomed and supported.

The most defining chapter of her career came during COVID, when she served as interim division manager. She recalls days when it felt like she was learning an entirely new job every morning. Looking back, she sees that time as a lesson in leadership: showing up, being willing to learn, and supporting people through uncertainty.

Learn more about Perm: https://stanford.io/3U4wU7I

Bryant Lin, who is living with stage 4 lung cancer, recently spoke with NPR about how quickly lung cancer care has chang...
10/06/2026

Bryant Lin, who is living with stage 4 lung cancer, recently spoke with NPR about how quickly lung cancer care has changed since his diagnosis. "Since I've been diagnosed, it's quite amazing how quick, how rapid our advances have been occurring," he says.

Lin, who calls himself "a beneficiary of years of decades of research," discusses how advances in precision therapies have shaped his own care. He also explains why continued research gives him hope for the future.

"I think the future is really bright because we're creating all of these personalized, specialized precision therapeutics for lung cancer," he says. "My hope is if we're not able to cure lung cancer, we can at least turn it into a chronic disease."

Listen to the full conversation at https://n.pr/4y0TDzE.

A man who took part in a clinical trial asked the pulmonary hypertension staff he knew to come visit him, and he include...
10/05/2026

A man who took part in a clinical trial asked the pulmonary hypertension staff he knew to come visit him, and he included Patricia Del Rosario.

"I opened the curtain, and I saw a peaceful man lying there. My heart felt heavy. I asked how he was doing. He said, 'This is it,'" Del Rosario recalls.

They talked about the clinical trial visits that had required him to come in frequently. They also talked about the wood carvings he made for Del Rosario and her son when her son was born, which he said were his way of saying thank you.

Del Rosario has worked in her field for 17 years. She says that visit "is when I understood what I've actually been doing all along."

Read more: https://stanford.io/4y4kSZU

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