I was 7 months pregnant and it was my last day of fellowship. I went to dinner with my best friend to celebrate, and at the table I had excruciating abdominal pain that led me to present to my hospital. I didn’t know yet, but I had a noncancerous tumor in my liver that ruptured.
In the early 2000s, when Dr. Alexandra Cvijanovich was completing her medical training in Utah, her team cared for a 13-year-old boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a degenerative neurological disease that can be fatal. It’s a rare complication of the measles virus that appears years after the initial infection.
Experts raised concerns about the CDC's plan to use the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) to look for an association between vaccines and autism, despite decades of data demonstrating the two are not linked.
A story broke not too long ago that absolutely took my breath away. I was so astounded that this would even be proposed, but it was Elon Musk doing the proposing, and if you follow his activities, I suppose nothing
The runaway costs of skin substitutes for treating chronic wounds have experts and accountable care organizations (ACOs) sounding the alarm, and new rules targeting profiteering in the industry are now in limbo under the Trump administration.
A wealthy kidney doctor accused his wife of stealing from him and threatened to divorce her, then he wound up shot and stabbed to death at his Florida home, according to a lawsuit filed by his kids.
Recently at the clinic where I’ve practiced for more than 30 years, the entire team became temporarily paralyzed by an IT glitch as a result of an upgrade, affecting the six-state organization.
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