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Efforts to improve health care quality and safety are mostly missing one significant source of concern: diagnostic errors, according to…
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Under the influence of the sugar industry decades ago, federal health officials stepped back from an ambitious campaign to wipe…
At a conference last year, Michael Laposata, M.D., Ph.D., one of the nation’s best known pathologists, explained how clinical laboratories…
A $400,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation will be used to create a database of retractions from scientific journals, extending…
Last week, I encountered yet another example of why it’s so important to always read the whole study — not…
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A study published in the Annals of Neurology indicates that cognitive decline may slow down when people speak two or…
With mammograms in the news lately, it’s worth noting that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has posted its plan…
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The Alzheimer’s Association and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention kicked off “The Healthy Brain Initiative: The Public Health Road Map…
It can be tough to find a medical study that is both important and compelling. But that was the opportunity…
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Despite concluding that a drug research lab’s violations “were so ‘egregious,’ and pervasive that studies conducted there between April 2005…