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Stanford Medicine teams discover biomarkers that predict common and serious pregnancy complications

Stanford Medicine teams discover biomarkers that predict common and serious pregnancy complications

They aimed to identify a small set of signals detectable during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy that could form the basis of a simple and inexpensive diagnostic test that can be used in low-, middle- and high-income countries. To estimate the accuracy of the machine learning models, the researchers first built the models with …

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Creating a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Baby - Stanford Medicine Children's Health Blog

Creating a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Baby – Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Blog

Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert recommending parents and caregivers not to use pillows to shape infants’ heads, as they can create an unsafe sleeping environment for infants and may increase the risk of suffocation and death. According to the FDA, pillows have not has been shown to be safe or …

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Stanford researchers find COVID-19 pandemic stress is in the brains of physically aged teenagers

The brains of adolescents who were assessed after the pandemic ended appeared several years older than those of adolescents who were assessed before the pandemic. The brains of adolescents who were assessed after the end of the COVID pandemic shutdowns appeared several years older than those of adolescents who were assessed before the pandemic. So …

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Stanford researchers find COVID-19 pandemic stress is in the brains of physically aged teenagers

The brains of adolescents who were assessed after the pandemic ended appeared several years older than those of adolescents who were assessed before the pandemic. The brains of adolescents who were assessed after the end of the COVID pandemic shutdowns appeared several years older than those of adolescents who were assessed before the pandemic. So …

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Anatomic pathology goes paperless at Stanford Health Care

Anatomic pathology goes paperless at Stanford Health Care

All pathology orders at Stanford Health Care are now fully digitized, enabling faster results, ease of tracking, and greater patient safety. Since 2015, Stanford Health Care has used a software system, Epic System’s Beaker CP, to track analysis of bodily fluids such as blood and urine (CP refers to clinical pathology). Last month, it deployed …

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