Biology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too
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GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. ― Myrna Peterson predicts self-driving vehicles will be a ticket out of isolation and loneliness for people like her, who live outside big cities and have disabilities that prevent...
View ArticleCan Family Doctors Deliver Rural America From Its Maternal Health Crisis?
CAIRO, Ga. — Zita Magloire carefully adjusted a soft measuring tape across Kenadie Evans’ pregnant belly. Determining a baby’s size during a 28-week obstetrical visit is routine. But Magloire, a...
View ArticleWhat the Health Care Sector Was Selling at the J.P. Morgan Confab
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View ArticleMore ‘Navigators’ Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions
Chloe Bell is a case manager at the National Abortion Federation. She spends her days helping people cover the cost of an abortion and, increasingly, the interstate travel many of them need to get the...
View ArticleAs AI Eye Exams Prove Their Worth, Lessons for Future Tech Emerge
Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform eye exams with...
View ArticleProgramas de inteligencia artificial diagnostican retinopatía diabética en...
Christian Espinoza, director de operaciones de una red de clínicas de tratamiento del sur de California, comenzó recientemente a emplear un nuevo asistente poderoso: un algoritmo de inteligencia...
View ArticleOverdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year
One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life....
View ArticleA Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the...
Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. As a college student in the 1990s,...
View ArticleIn San Francisco’s Chinatown, a CEO Works With the Community To Bolster Hospital
SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese Hospital, located in the heart of this city’s legendary Chinatown, struggles with many of the same financial and demographic challenges that plague small independent hospitals...
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