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A large Stanford Medicine study finds the risk is low and not related to the CAR-T cells.</description></item><item><title>Stanford Medicine trial: 15-day Paxlovid regimen safe but adds no clear long-COVID benefit</title><category>News Release</category><category>All News - Featured Item 2</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>Medical Research</category><category>News</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Front Page - Featured Item 2</category><category>COVID-19</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (merickso)</author><pubDate>Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:01:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/06/paxlovid-covid</guid><description>Paxlovid, effective in preventing severe COVID-19, didn’t appear to help long-COVID patients in this single-center study. But further research may show benefits with different doses or for people with specific symptoms.</description></item><item><title>Leanne Williams receives $18 million National Institutes of Health grant to diagnose and treat depression</title><category>Depression</category><category>Awards &amp; Honors</category><category>Medical Research</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>News</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Uniquely Stanford</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (phannon)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:09:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/06/leanne-williams-grant</guid><description>Professor of psychiatry and behavioral health Leanne Williams will lead a project to define depression’s cognitive biotypes and create tools for clinicians to diagnose and treat patients. </description></item><item><title>Howard Chang awarded the 2024 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences</title><category>Genetics</category><category>Awards &amp; 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Matin, Stanford Medicine microbiologist who sent E. coli to space, dies at 83</title><category>VF</category><category>All News - Featured Item 2</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>Medical Research</category><category>Microbiology</category><category>News</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Obituaries</category><category>E Coli</category><category>Front Page - Featured Item 2</category><category>Uniquely Stanford</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (phannon)</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:11:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/ac-matin-obit</guid><description>The microbiologist, on the faculty for nearly half a century, studied a wide range of topics, including antibiotic resistance, cancer, and bacteria as an agent for cleaning up toxic chemicals.</description></item><item><title>Janice ‘Wes’ Brown, infectious disease researcher and physician, dies at 63</title><category>All News - Featured Item 3</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>News</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Obituaries</category><category>Front Page - Featured Item 3</category><category>Stanford Medicine</category><category>Infectious Diseases</category><category>Uniquely Stanford</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (phannon)</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 23:16:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/janice-brown-obit</guid><description>Brown developed stem-cell therapies for patients who suffered infections after receiving blood or bone marrow transplants.</description></item><item><title>Join RAISE Health’s inaugural symposium on AI in health and medicine</title><category>Artificial Intelligence (AI)</category><category>News Release</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>News</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (merickso)</author><pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2024 16:31:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/raise-health-symposium</guid><description>Register for the inaugural RAISE Health symposium, which will convene leaders in artificial intelligence for discussions on safe and responsible AI innovation.</description></item><item><title>Small pump for kids awaiting heart transplant shows promise in  Stanford Medicine-led trial</title><category>Digitally Driven</category><category>News Release</category><category>All News - Featured Item 2</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>Transplantation</category><category>News</category><category>Pediatrics</category><category>Patient Care</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Health Policy</category><category>Front Page - Featured Item 2</category><category>Cardiology</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (phannon)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 22:15:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/pediatric-heart-pump</guid><description>A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child’s failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a Stanford Medicine-led trial.</description></item><item><title>Stanford Medicine delivers first FDA-approved cell-based therapy for solid tumors</title><category>All News - Featured Item 1</category><category>Send to UComms</category><category>Medical Research</category><category>News</category><category>Stanford School of Medicine</category><category>Skin Cancers</category><category>Innovation &amp; Technology</category><category>Patient Care</category><category>Front Page - Featured Item 1</category><category>Stanford Health Care</category><category>Health Care - Featured Item 3</category><category>Uniquely Stanford</category><author>noemail@noemail.org (merickso)</author><pubDate>Mon, 5 Aug 2024 14:57:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/car-t-melanoma</guid><description>The FDA recently approved the first cell-based therapy — widely used in treating blood cancers — for solid tumors. 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