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Public health is under pressure. Across health systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the United States, state…
Are you ready to embrace digital healthcare?Jackie Niamh/iStock/Getty Images One of OpenAI’s leading artificial intelligence models has the ability to outperform humans in diagnosing medical conditions,…
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has taken action to rein in the hugely popular combination semaglutide industry, which is offering copies of its blockbuster weight loss drugs…
Eli Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of pharmacies, telemedicine companies, and health spas that manufacture and sell “combined” versions of tirzepatide. This hawkish legal…
‘Being Ill’ review: A penetrating question about why we shy away from other people’s illnesses
People with severe illnesses may have their diagnosis made by someone elseMartin Parr/Magnum Photo being sickNeil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books) When endocrinologist David Rabin…
Sodium valproate is an effective drug for epilepsy, but it is not recommended for use during pregnancyMiljan Zivković/Shutterstock The drug rapamycin may prevent the epilepsy drug…
25 Years Later Pediatric infectious disease specialist Asuncion Mejias knows all too well the deadly unpredictability of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an infection that hospitalizes 80,000…
The process of confirming the role of the MAL gene faced many challenges, including work by rival researchers who suggested that an entirely different gene might…
Mosquitoes are part of a double-edged sword: the war on diseaseMariam Ghani/Indexical Films diseaseMariam Ghani Pending distribution There aren’t many laugh-out-loud moments in Mariam Ghani’s documentary…
But psychedelic drugs are difficult to test this way because their hallucinogenic effects are highly visible to the person taking them: In the Lycos trial, about…