Of the 600 known species of leeches, Hirudo medicinalis is the most widely used for therapeutic purposes. While modern medicine largely disregards leech therapy as a mainstream treatment, ...

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The Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to do no harm, but, historically, this rule hasn’t always been followed. From haphazard ...

USC clinicians discuss the risk for bleeding incidents, such as intracranial hemorrhage, in patients with ITP as well as rescue treatment and subsequent management. COVID-19: Trial, Error, and ...

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The Race and Medicine collection reflects NEJM’s commitment to understanding and combating racism as a public health and human rights crisis. Our commitment to antiracism includes efforts to ...

A Birmingham leader's move to Florida signals big changes for a major cancer research hub. Find out what this means for the ...

Experts discuss how cancer treatment and survivorship can be made more equitable and affordable through advocacy, outreach, and effective communication tools. Beyond Cancer: Caring for Young ...

Bill to make ivermectin available OTC without a prescription advances in state Legislature. Supporters claim it might cure ...

The experts explained that plastic teabags release billions of microparticles and nanoparticles into tea. Tea brands with ...

Feb. 26, 2025 — A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to ...