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In a medical culture that values technical prowess and the ability to make complex clinical decisions, personal reflection can help...

Delays for emergency surgery were associated with a higher risk of death for patients in hospital -- and higher costs...

Credit: Department of Cell Signaling,Department of Orthodontic Science?TMDU) Recently, frequency of mastication has dramatically decreased along with changes in dietary...

Hydroxychloroquine, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat malaria and certain autoimmune diseases in pregnant women,...

Physicians regularly encounter losses: not only the death of patients but also more ambiguous losses, including changes in professional roles,...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified inflammatory biomarkers which indicate whether the brain has suffered injury. The team,...

Credit: Kobe University High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is known as "good" cholesterol, because HDL particles removes excess cholesterol from arterial...

Like many surgeons, Dr. Jason Spector is often faced with the challenge of securely closing the abdominal wall without injuring...

Zebra finches brought up without their fathers don't react to the singing of potential suitors in the same way that...

An international team of hematologists including Guy Young, MD, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has found that in patients with...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Three case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the promise...

Around-the-clock care from senior physicians helped reduce major complications in cardiac surgery patients as compared to receiving care from resident...

When patients are admitted to the hospital, their connection to their primary care physician is often disrupted, leading to difficult...

Johns Hopkins scientists report that data collected over five years by volunteers who tested pills free of charge at music...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Many scientists are paying new attention to prebiotics, that is, molecules we eat but...

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Traffic stops, office conversations, and even doctor's visits--more and more people today are choosing to record...

A new series of clinical decision rules integrating signs, symptoms, and C-reactive protein diagnose acute rhinosinusitis and acute bacterial rhinosinusitis...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sexism is alive and well in sexual assault research, but this time men are the target....

Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered differences in how the brain responds to food...