In last month's column, I wrote about the new concept of "medical disease offset" and contrasted it with "medical cost offset." Now, I will illustrate this with a case example. But first, here is ...

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology is a journal designed to lighten the reading load for busy doctors; why, then, does it include Case Studies? Isn't the Case Study just a bit of light reading?

Drug development programs face unique challenges in demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of drugs for treating rare diseases. The ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found Bartonella henselae, Babesia odocoilei and Babesia divergens-like MO-1 DNA in brain tissue samples from a young child with ...

Prenatal diagnostic testing can now determine whether a fetus carries a debilitating or fatal sex-linked mutation. But with such screening, why hasn't the disease allele frequency gone down?

Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a heightened ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found Bartonella henselae, Babesia odocoilei and Babesia divergens-like MO-1 DNA in brain tissue samples from a young child with ...

Scientists looked at temperature and rainfall trends in the Philippines to see if there was a connection with dengue fever ...

The benefits of weight training are many: it promotes gains in strength and muscle mass, reduces body fat, and contributes to ...