Before he had completed medical training, David Shlim found compassion slipping. “Halfway through my first year of residency I found myself wishing that a patient would die so that I could go back to ...

In 1999, the distinguished oncologist Dr Joseph Simone 1 published a series of aphorisms on the basis of his personal observations over his long tenure as a leader in academic medicine. In the quarter ...

Health, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue: Understanding the Evidence-Based Movements (July 2003), pp. 353-369 (17 pages) Evidence-based medicine (EBM) promises to make the practice of medicine more fully ...

You can hear it in their voices. As a nurse excitedly describes her first charitable mission, the words spill out faster and louder. When a surgeon reflects on the lasting friendships formed with ...

The updated definition will be published as a report in the society’s journal Fertility and Sterility in about a week or 10 days, Sean Tipton, ASRM’s chief advocacy and policy officer, said Monday. In ...

Implementing cancer precision medicine in the clinic requires assessing the therapeutic relevance of genomic alterations. A main challenge is the systematic interpretation of whole-exome sequencing ...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are the focus of intensive efforts worldwide directed not only at elucidating their nature and unique properties but also developing cell-based therapies for a diverse ...

IF you've bought medicines before you will know that there are those you can't just grab off the shelf without speaking to your pharmacist. But you may still be wondering why certain medicines are ...