Death wellness: A modern movement with ancient roots
Have you heard of the death wellness or death positivity movement? It’s a culture, community and related set of practices built around the mutual goals
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Nutritional deficiencies, HIV and DTG brew a ‘perfect storm.’ The good news? There is a simple solution.
A preferred medication for treating HIV infection has been recently linked to a 6- to 9-fold increase in the risk for neural tube defects among
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Embryo swap scandal reinforces role of genetic counselors
In what should have been the best moment of her life, a New York woman looked down at her newborn twins for the first time
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Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer shows promise
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most challenging types of cancer to treat, but new therapy using the body’s own immune system is providing new
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Is biohacking ‘the practice of medicine?’: Regulators might think so
In an unprecedented regulatory move, a famous biohacker is under investigation in California for allegedly practicing medicine without a license. The complaint against Josiah Zayner,
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‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication
Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population of the total cells, they
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What if someone could be ‘kind of’ alive?
When the executioner’s assistant held up the freshly guillotined head of assassin Charlotte Corday by her hair and slapped her face on both cheeks in
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Closing the gender gap in cardiothoracic surgery
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of Progress Notes posts featuring women medical students at Baylor College of Medicine interviewing their role
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The evolution of medical ethics committees
In 1962, Swedish Hospital in Seattle was the first institution to offer hemodialysis for patients with kidney failure. Demand for access to this novel and
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Overcoming adversity as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of Progress Notes posts featuring women medical students at Baylor College of Medicine interviewing their role
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