Reducing maternal mortality is a key focus of development strategies and one of the indicators used to measure progress towards…
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Impact of palliative chemotherapy and best supportive care on overall survival and length of hospitalization in patients with incurable Cancer: a 4-year single institution experience in Japan
This study aimed to analyze the determinants of patients’ choice between palliative chemotherapy and best supportive care (BSC) and to…
A Pregnant Woman with Anterior Chest Mass and Respiratory Failure: Blastomycosis in a Historically Nonendemic Area
A 30-year-old woman, 29 weeks pregnant (G1P0), presented with progressive right-sided pleuritic chest discomfort and dyspnea for 1 week in…
In China, Public Talk of Sex Is Rare. Could a ‘Pleasure Community’ Change That?
Strangers gathered in Beijing to discuss a subject rarely addressed publicly in China: how to satisfy a woman. These workshops…
Leann Birch, Who Knew How to Get a Child to Eat Peas, Dies at 72
Her research into childhood nutrition and obesity shed new light on not just what children eat, but also why.
Did I Need to Know What Gender My Nonbinary Interviewees Were Assigned at Birth? Maybe Not
To write about the debate over adding an “X” option to state IDs, I was trying to better understand how…
Medical News Today: New study links air pollution with atherosclerosis
Scientists have found an intriguing association between exposure to ambient ozone and the thickening of the carotid arteries’ walls.
Medical News Today: Is virtual reality the next frontier of Alzheimer’s diagnosis?
New research suggests that using a virtual reality simulator could be more effective at detecting Alzheimer’s disease than standard tests.
Atypical presentation of bacteremia in older patients is a risk factor for death
The absence of fever in bacteremia in older patients is known to delay diagnosis. Our objective was to determine whether…