Grandmother believed it: Feeding chicken soup to the ailing speeds their recovery. Now, with pilot programs evaluated and larger-scale studies underway, the Medicaid program may recognize as a medical ...

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press—one from the field of education, the other from medicine—have something important in common: They are the latest cases in ...

Taking a lesson from precision medicine to improve population health, patient experiences As the number of individuals with chronic conditions rises and consumer expectations continue to change, ...

During my residency at Stanford, I traveled to Mexico with a group of surgeons to operate on children with cleft lips and palates. On the first day, I watched in awe as the team leader meticulously ...

In a recent review published in the journal Frontiers in Science, researchers underline the need for multidisciplinary collaboration in medicine, particularly in transmissible illnesses, ...

The benefits of personalised medicine are increasingly recognised around the world, enabled by advances in our ability to obtain and analyse information from genomic and other biomarkers and combine ...

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here, or ...

In medical school, there’s a long list of things that vie for my attention and my schedule. There’s studying, class time, lab time, trainings, clinics, paperwork, assignments and tests. In between ...

As a child growing up in China, I was always aware of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is what we refer to as Eastern medicine, in contrast to the Western medicine we know from U.S. hospitals.

IN any Western country with a heritage of Judaeo-Christian ethics, the regulation of abortion is an immensely complex problem in which the basic medical factors are obscured by religious, moral and ...

As a child growing up in China, I was always aware of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is what we refer to as Eastern medicine, in contrast to the Western medicine we know from U.S. hospitals.