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The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing...

Ralph Waldo Emerson defined the humanist origins of medicine. We praise his work, but we forget he fought against the...

We should question why we look at medicine as a right. It is a legal concept that cannot address uncertainty...

Rights force us to think individually. But medicine is a duty. It works only when we think of service to...

Misinformation is a mistake of our own making. It leads to vaccine hesitancy and mistrust among patients. It also exposes...

Recent findings have challenged our understanding of depression and dementia. They should also raise questions about our reliance on evidence-based...

In healthcare, we have a committee for everything. It is how we meet and how we decide. But it also...

While celebrating the Fourth of July and all that it represents, we pondered whether physicians should do more to protect...

We teach medicine through memory. But memorizing facts does little to address the uncertainty that comes out of making decisions...

A better understanding of the pandemic’s effects on young people is essential to developing policy responses that can address the...

In game theory, outcomes depend on the nature of the game and the payoffs. Healthcare is a game of incomplete...

The CDC must decide whether to proceed with a new generation of vaccines that promise longer immunity. But many unknowns...