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A 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypoxemia and right heart failure that had been caused by ...
“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 ...
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.
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.
The rising tide of chronic kidney disease among patients with type 2 diabetes continues to challenge clinicians and health systems worldwide.1 Advances have been made in the management of chronic k ...
Much of the food consumed in the United States is ultraprocessed. Evidence indicates that ultraprocessed food, as a class, has contributed to high rates of chronic diseases.
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 ...
A 73-year-old woman was referred to the hematology clinic for evaluation of anemia. Bone marrow biopsy revealed trilineage hematopoietic maturation with severe dyserythropoiesis. Laboratory studies ...
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 ...
A 68-year-old man presented with unilateral ptosis. Neurologic examination revealed ptosis of the left eye after a sustained upward gaze. Myasthenia gravis was suspected, and an ice-pack test was p ...
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 ...