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Stanford University Medical Center. / 37.434; -122.175. Stanford University Medical Center is a medical complex which includes Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health. It is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States and serves as a teaching hospital for the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The San Antonio Contraceptive Study was a clinical research study published in 1971 about the side effects of oral contraceptives. Women coming to a clinic in San Antonio, Texas to prevent pregnancies were not told they were participating in a research study or receiving placebos. Ten of the women became pregnant while on placebos.
The Stanford Cancer Institute is an NCI-designated Cancer Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. It is one of eight comprehensive cancer centers in California. The Stanford Cancer Institute leverages the scientific, technological, and human resources of Stanford University and Stanford Health Care to enhance the understanding of cancer ...
Surgical removal of body parts to try to improve mental health. United States. New Jersey. 1920s. Controversial psychiatrist Henry Cotton at Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey became convinced that insanity was fundamentally a toxic disorder and he surgically removed body parts to try to improve mental health.
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in ...
Anand Veeravagu. Anand Veeravagu is an American neurosurgeon at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. [1] In 2012, he was selected to serve as a White House Fellow and is focused on innovation in healthcare delivery, traumatic brain injury, mental health and suicide prevention initiatives. [2] [3] [4]
Steven N. Goodman (born 1954) is an American Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. [1] He has extensively contributed to foundations of scientific and statistical inference within the biosciences, and in 1999 he coined the term "p-value fallacy". [2]
Thomas C. Merigan. Thomas Charles Merigan (born January 18, 1934 in San Francisco) is an American virologist and the George E. and Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Merigan's research first focused on human viral pathogenesis, basic and clinical studies of interferon, and then developing ...