Doctors, firefighters and others who risk exposure to Covid-19 are being taken to court by ex-spouses who want to keep…
‘Thanking God for My Breath’: Dispatch From New York’s Frontline
An E.R. doctor predicted the chaos that Covid-19 would unleash long before it was declared a pandemic. Then she came…
Evaluation of opioid use in acute pancreatitis in absence of chronic pancreatitis: Absence of opioid dependence an important feature
Opioid use in the United States is a major public health crisis contributing to over 600,000 deaths, with the prevalence…
Small Vein Pulsations: An Overlooked Sign of Poor Prognosis
In 1925, Dr.’s Kerr and Warren described the association of peripheral vein pulsations secondary to severe heart failure and tricuspid…
BLASTOMYCOSIS DETECTED BY MICROBIAL CELL-FREE DNA IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT
68-year-old male with past medical history of kidney transplant (3 years ago) and diabetes mellitus presented with fever, shortness of…
Clogs in the Pipeline: How GME Funding Contributes to the Primary Care Shortage
Recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) note a current deficit of primary care physicians (PCPs) of…
It’s now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed
Researchers have defined a crucial window of time that mice need to key in on visual events.
River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic
Naturally occurring groundwater arsenic contamination is a problem of global significance, particularly in South and Southeast Asian aquifers.
Common coronaviruses are highly seasonal, with most cases peaking in winter months
Of the seven coronaviruses known to infect people, four cause common respiratory infections that are sharply seasonal and appear to…
How forest loss leads to spread of disease
In Uganda, loss of forested habitat increases the likelihood of interactions between disease-carrying wild primates and humans. The findings suggest…