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Despite their limited experience, medical students and residents are often sought out for health advice by family and friends. In an inequitable health system, these consults may seem essential.
A new Massachusetts law may be the most far-reaching U.S. state legislation aimed at curtailing the influence of private equity in health care. It could serve as a model for other jurisdictions.
The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...
A small-molecule drug proves its mettle in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a disease amenable to intervention at the pre-mRNA level.
“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry toward higher levels of integrated control by consolidated profit-seeking ...
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 author describes the scientific foundations of a clinical trial of a first-in-class small-molecule estrogen receptor degrader to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Although xenon may have neuroprotective effects, there is no strong evidence that it aids in short-term, high-altitude performance. Success is more likely a result of acclimatization, oxygen suppor ...
To the Editor: In the 2IQP trial, Kudva and colleagues (May 8 issue) 1 found that in adults with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, automated insulin delivery (AID) led to a greater reduction in ...
The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of ...
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.
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.