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Just about everyone wants medical care, but some want it a lot more. We discovered a personality trait that explains why it’s hard to improve health care outcomes and costs.
Viral hepatitis sheds light on key challenges faced by health system in Africa and how social and culture factors can help in prevention.
This research could provide an answer to some of the problems posed by antibiotic resistance.
The guidelines don’t go far enough to clarify what to do in the case of refusals by children.
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
Two experts argue the case.
The well-used drug clomipramine could target tumour cells and leave normal cells healthy – if scientists could get enough evidence for it.
Celebrating mental health is a great opportunity to make the right changes to keep workers happy – and productive.
While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
A disease that we have known about for more than 100 years still defies proper description and a consensus on how to tackle it.
A small study has found that pharmacists would consider re-dispensing medications returned from other patients if they were permitted to do so.
A thousand years of historical sources make it clear that migraine is more than just a headache.
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a growing concern for our future health. Whose responsibility is it to intervene?
Analyzing electronic data from many doctors’ experiences with many patients, we can move ever closer to answering the age-old question: what is truly best for each patient?
The relationship between poetry and doctoring has a strong pedigree, but it has all but dissipated. Here’s why we need it back.
A disease which can mimic the slow march of old age is especially cruel and challenging for those in the prime of life.
Pharmacists are trained to do far more than dispensing medicine, but outdated policies keep them from taking on a greater role in patient care.
It’s a myth that hair and nails continue to grow after you die. What else have science discovered about death?
By definition, a rare disease isn’t always easy to spot but there are ways to make it easier to do.
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
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Chief, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW