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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.
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.
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, ...
Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Katie Watson on the interaction of abortion laws with advance-directive and end-of-life laws.
A 75-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea and hypoxemia. CT of the chest showed a cavitary lesion in the right upper lobe and masses in both lower lobes. A diagnosis was made.
A 71-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented to the ophthalmology clinic for an annual screening examination for hydroxychloroquine-related toxic effects. She reported no vision ...
After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life.
Real-world data could help advance disease prevention and treatment, enhance quality of care, and empower patients to improve their health. But various challenges continue to impede their utilization.
The author describes the implementation of a clinical-care program involving pronuclear transfer to minimize the transmission of mitochondrial disease. He also describes the long pathway leading to ...
Fragile X disorders include two distinct conditions: fragile X syndrome (the most common single-gene cause of developmental delay and autism) and an entirely separate group of premutation syndromes.
The author describes pronuclear transfer, a type of mitochondrial donation, which was made available to women with mitochondrial DNA disease in a reproductive care pathway implemented in Newcastle, ...