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Palliative care—just easing pain and boosting spirits—help very ill patients live better. Now it turns out to let them live longer, too.
Though routinely discarded, the placenta has a rich story to tell, full of information about fetal development and future health.
Drug availability is getting worse, with essential medicines often impossible to obtain. What will it take to fix the system?
As her mother’s memory fades, one writer watches it go, one handwritten note at a time.
Could living cleaner actually make us sicker?
Doctors use Facebook and Twitter just like the rest of the public, but their participation brings ethical and legal risks.
A century ago, MGH pathologist Richard Cabot made an event out of physicians identifying illnesses—and greatly improved diagnostic methods as a result.
Primary care physician Eric Weil directs a program that shows that more attentive care for high-risk patients may be the most effective way to control costs.
Deep in Central Russia and down in Atlanta are the two remaining stocks of the eradicated virus that’s killed millions—should they be destroyed?
Though not as sexy as genomics or the latest miracle drug, improved techniques and technology for fixing aortas are saving lots of lives.
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