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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, ...
The rate of fatalities on U.S. roadways is much higher than those in many other high-income nations. The authors review evidence-based strategies for moving toward a future with no traffic deaths.
A 75-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea and hypoxemia. CT of the chest showed a cavitary lesion in the right upper lobe and masses in both lower lobes. A diagnosis was made.
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.
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.
Gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers remain a major global health challenge, with a high risk of recurrence despite surgery and perioperative chemotherapy. The standard perioperative regim ...
Cardiac allotransplantation is warranted in children with end-stage heart failure or irreparable congenital heart disease. A dearth of organs for transplantation has contributed to long wait-list t ...