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Research is showing that advanced methods of genetic testing aren’t equally useful for everyone: They’re less accurate for non-white families, raising concerns about how historical gaps in whose DNA gets studied produce inequities in medical care.
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Mashup Score: 18Could anesthesia-induced dreams wipe away trauma? - 10 day(s) ago
Cases of patients who recovered from trauma after dreaming under surgical anesthesia spur Stanford Medicine researchers to investigate dreaming as therapy.
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Mashup Score: 51Imagining virtual reality as a simple tool to treat depression - 15 day(s) ago
Some of the 17 million Americans afflicted with major depressive disorder each year may soon receive a surprising new prescription from their clinician: Have fun on a virtual reality device.
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Mashup Score: 30Serious talk about moods with bipolar disorder expert Po Wang - 16 day(s) ago
Often misunderstood and undertreated, bipolar disorder has received close attention from Stanford Medicine clinicians and researchers for more than 30 years.
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Mashup Score: 85
A new test can detect the biological signature of Parkinson’s disease before symptoms arise. A Stanford Medicine neurologist explains why early diagnosis opens the door to better therapies.
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Mashup Score: 21Serious talk about moods with bipolar disorder expert Po Wang - 27 day(s) ago
Often misunderstood and undertreated, bipolar disorder has received close attention from Stanford Medicine clinicians and researchers for more than 30 years.
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Mashup Score: 40Are long COVID sufferers falling through the cracks? - 1 month(s) ago
Researchers who study long COVID say its debilitating symptoms are often misdiagnosed by clinicians and dismissed by employers or loved ones because so little is known about the new syndrome.
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Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction.
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A few closely related drugs, all squarely aimed at treating Alzheimer’s disease, have served up what can be charitably described as a lackadaisical performance. Stanford Medicine neurologist Mike Greicius explains why these drugs, so promising in theory, don’t appear to be helping patients much if at all.
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Mashup Score: 29What really happens to our memory as we age? - 1 month(s) ago
A Q&A with a Stanford neuroscientist on dementia, healthy aging and memory loss — and how we can protect our brains in later life
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Stanford Medicine research reveals disparities in genetic testing accuracy, especially for non-white families. This highlights historical gaps in DNA studies, fueling healthcare inequities. #Genetics #HealthcareEquity https://t.co/x0g0KeINvn