Thirty years ago, chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity accounted for less than 45% of the global…
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Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces
In a 2019 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns,” former…
Screening and Treatment Program to Eliminate Hepatitis C in Egypt
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major global health problem affecting 1% of the world population. The Sustainable…
How skin cells prepare to heal wounds
Researchers have published the first comprehensive overview of the major changes that occur in mammalian skin cells as they prepare…
Melanoma is killing fewest Americans in decades
Advances in treatment have led to the largest yearly declines in deaths due to melanoma ever recorded for this skin…
High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals
Neuroscientists can now capture millisecond electrical changes in neurons in the cortex of an alert mouse, allowing tracing of neural…
Opioid Prescribing in the Midst of Crisis — Myths and Realities
The once-simple act of writing an opioid prescription has become fraught. Physicians must check prescription monitoring databases to review patients’…
The Dishonesty of Informed Consent Rituals
The patient was moaning and swearing, his emergency visible from across the department: the flattened shoulder, the dent where the…
Hereditary Angioedema
Hereditary angioedema is a rare, potentially life-threatening disorder characterized by attacks of cutaneous and submucosal swelling. Quincke first described its…
Researchers find brain cell that triggers tremor and how to control it
Researchers have improved our understanding of how tremor — the most common movement disorder — happens, opening the possibility of…