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Amid widespread deregulation, private law is poised to play an increasingly central role in the health care system. But reliance on private law comes with risk.
As her father awaits an organ for his third transplantation, a surgical resident retrieves a kidney from a fellow hockey fan, recognizing at a deep, personal level the value of his gift of life.
A man from rural India presented with redness and blurry vision in one eye. Examination was notable for panuveitis and a live worm in the posterior segment; the worm was removed in a pars plana ...
A 19-year-old woman with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms was admitted to the hospital because of seizure, ...
This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...
“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...
Though infant mortality has continuously been targeted by health policy agendas, policies tend to place it in an individualistic and narrow frame, failing to consider and address its structural ...
Understanding today’s corporatization of U.S. health care requires seeing it from a historical perspective, as a process that began with a change in the business model of care delivery in the 1920s.
Much of the food consumed in the United States is ultraprocessed. Evidence indicates that ultraprocessed food, as a class, has contributed to high rates of chronic diseases.
A 5-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with pruritic and ulcerated lesions on both legs. Skin culture revealed Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Homozygosity for the PNPLA3 risk allele is linked to liver fat accumulation. In phase 1 trials, JNJ-75220795, a hepatocyte-targeted GalNAc-conjugated PNPLA3 siRNA, reduced liver fat in PNPLA3 ...
Maintaining medicine’s commitment to excellence while remedying our failures requires distinguishing unnecessary trainee harms from necessary discomforts. Why is it so hard to make these ...