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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.
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, ...
“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...
This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...
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.
The rate of fatalities on U.S. roadways is much higher than those in many other high-income nations. The authors review evidence-based strategies for moving toward a future with no traffic deaths.
Children were recently discovered to have been exposed to high levels of lead in Milwaukee schools — the latest episode in an ongoing toxic pandemic. This time, no help was forthcoming from the CDC.
Gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers remain a major global health challenge, with a high risk of recurrence despite surgery and perioperative chemotherapy. The standard perioperative regim ...
To the Editor: The article by Schmidt et al. (May 8 issue)1 concluded that bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) revaccination does not provide protection from sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...