Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is destined to collide with its largest neighbor, a sparkling collection of stars called the Andromeda galaxy. This cataclysm has been foretold by well-known physics, and ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

Former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden joins ABC News Live to talk about an advisory panel's vote to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccinations at birth.

Medical research involves research in a wide range of fields, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology with the goal of developing new medicines or medical procedures or improving the ...

This paper examines the factors that influence a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) to shift risk to doctors through an incentive arrangement called capitation, where physicians are paid a fixed ...

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Medical genetics involves the application of genetics to medical care, including research on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders, and their diagnosis and management. This Review discusses ...

Can doctors in California learn from a patient who was bounced from one specialist to another in Japan? Can clinicians in London take lessons from a patient seeking asylum while suffering a medical ...

Omnia, a device capable of fully automated objective refraction, keratometry, tonometry and pachymetry, has been cleared by the FDA and is now available from Topcon Healthcare, according to a press ...

I have read the guest column, “People living with disabilities support death with dignity” (July 25), which advocates for legalizing assisted suicide and/or euthanasia for the disabled. I could be ...