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The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...
A 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypoxemia and right heart failure that had been caused by rapidly progressive pulmonary hypertension. A diagnosis was made.
Current international clinical practice guidelines recommend complete revascularization for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with multivessel coronary artery disease ...
“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...
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 vit ...
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 ...
An industry-supported center claims that it costs companies $2.6 billion to develop a new drug. But we need a broader-based and more transparent reckoning of research-and-development costs to infor ...
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.
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.
A 72-year-old woman with a 30-year history of paraplegia was referred to the urology clinic for treatment of a bladder stone. CT of the abdomen revealed a large bladder stone with a tree ring ...
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 59-year-old veterinarian presented with a 1-year history of a painful rash on his hand. Verrucous plaques with overlying thick yellow-brown crusting were seen on the dorsum of the hand and the me ...