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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.
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.
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 ...
“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.
To prevent the spread of inaccurate information, academic and health care institutions will need to equip scientists and clinicians to engage effectively on nontraditional media platforms.
This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...
A 19-year-old woman with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms was admitted to the hospital because of seizure, ...
Patients undergoing cardiac surgery have a high risk of allogeneic red-cell transfusion. Whether hemodilution can reduce this risk has been unclear. New research findings are summarized in a short ...
Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma (SCC) is primarily caused by oncogenesis mediated by ultraviolet radiation, and β-human papillomavirus (β-HPV) is believed to be a mere facilitator that is ...