In 1961, the investigators involved in the Framingham Heart Study identified serum cholesterol as one of the “factors of risk”…
Democratizing Evidence Production — A 51-Year-Old Man with Sudden Onset of Dense Hemiparesis
In 2015, a 51-year-old farmer, Mr. K. arrived at the Jan Swasthya Sahyog hospital — an approximately 100-bed hospital in…
Randomized Trial of Medical versus Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heartburn
In the United States, approximately 20% of adults regularly have symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and annual costs for…
Preexisting Conditions
Doc gets these calls more often now, cries for help from family and friends. They call him, he says, because…
Atrophic Glossitis
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Calcinosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
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Think First, Cut Last — Lessons from a Clinical Trial of Refractory Heartburn
Conceptualizing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as a single disease process that will respond to higher and higher doses of acid…
Case 32-2019: A 70-Year-Old Woman with Rapidly Progressive Ataxia
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Erratum to ‘Don’t Move a Muscle: A Case of Diabetic Myonecrosis’
The publisher regrets that updated figures for this case report were not included in the published article. 1 See below…
When added to gene therapy, plant-based compound may enable faster, more effective treatments
Today’s standard process for administering gene therapy is expensive and time-consuming — a result of the many steps required to…