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This week, France announced that it intends to cut the use of nitrites in food. The disturbing context: The French National Health Agency confirmed that nitrite raises our cancer risk.

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Ravi Santani MD - December 15, 2025

Although rare by definition, the collective impact of rare diseases is anything but insignificant. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region – home to over half of...

Hospital Managers, Medical Decisions, and Patients’ Need to Know

Pat Farrell PhD - July 9, 2024

Medical decisions are being made not only by insurance companies but also by hospital managers and algorithms, and concern for patient care continues to grow.

Restrictive practices in medicine are holding high-income countries back

Mark Chataway - September 14, 2025

A paper in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is part of a pattern: middle-income countries do a lot of primary care...

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