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A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health...

India Questions New Dehli’s Changes to National Vaccination Program

India has just made radical changes to its national vaccine strategy that will lead to widespread vaccine discrimination and inequality, price gouging and a bidding war between states

From The Appeals Desk: Brevity Beware

Clinician documentation is everything. It tells the story of the patient's current condition and what is being done to fix it. Against it patients'...

Has Therapeutic Touch Lost Its Way in Medicine? Or Is It Lawsuits?

Touch has become a subject of lawsuits and medical interventions. The MeToo movement pulled touch into an unexpected, negative spotlight in our culture.