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A 19-year-old woman with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms was admitted to the hospital because of seizure, ...
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 ...
This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...
An 80-year-old woman presented with a 3-day history of abdominal pain. Imaging revealed numerous small gallstones in the gallbladder and cystic duct, consistent with cholecystitis.
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.
A 21-month-old boy presented with a pruritic rash on his left leg that was thought to be at the site of a recent insect bite. A video shows a pulsating erythematous plaque, referred to as Quincke ...
A 55-year-old man in the ICU had a sudden-onset vesicular rash appear across his trunk and arms. On examination, he was febrile and had clear vesicles resembling water droplets across his torso (sh ...
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 ...
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 ...
The FDA is developing guidance on the use of “real-world evidence” — health care information from atypical sources, including electronic health records, billing databases, and product and ...
The extreme reductions that the Trump administration is making at the vital, mission-driven Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amount to unilateral disarmament against health hazards.
Risks and rewards change during the life cycle of a drug. In the innovation period, drug companies invest in developing new products but cannot sell them. Newly approved drugs initially have exclus ...