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“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...
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 ...
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.
This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...
A 19-year-old woman with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms was admitted to the hospital because of seizure, ...
Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Katie Watson on the interaction of abortion laws with advance-directive and end-of-life laws.
Children were recently discovered to have been exposed to high levels of lead in Milwaukee schools — the latest episode in an ongoing toxic pandemic. This time, no help was forthcoming from the CDC.
To the Editor: The article by Schmidt et al. (May 8 issue)1 concluded that bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) revaccination does not provide protection from sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Arthur Robin Williams on alcohol consumption in the United States and the effects of alcohol taxes.
A 71-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented to the ophthalmology clinic for an annual screening examination for hydroxychloroquine-related toxic effects. She reported no vision ...
After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life.