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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: The Rare Blood Clotting Emergency
Some medical emergencies appear without warning. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, commonly called TTP, is one of the most dangerous among them.…
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Polycythemia Vera: Too Many Red Blood Cells and Clotting Risk
The human body maintains exquisitely precise control over the number of blood cells circulating at any given time. The bone…
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Aplastic Anemia: When Bone Marrow Stops Making Blood Cells
Every second of every day, the bone marrow performs one of the most vital tasks in the human body. It…
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Reactive Arthritis: When Infection Triggers Joint Pain
Most people expect joint pain to have an obvious cause — an injury, years of wear and tear, or a…
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Overactive Bladder: Causes, Treatments, and What’s Going On
Imagine being in a meeting, on a bus, or in the middle of a meal — and suddenly feeling an…
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Mumbai’s Iconic Dabbawalas, Serving Millions for Over a Century, Face Decline
Every morning in Mumbai, before the city fully awakens, a dedicated group of men known as dabbawalas begin their day.…
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Nandan Nilekani: Leading Infosys Through Two Key Successions at 71
Nandan Nilekani, the non-executive chairman of Infosys, celebrates his 71st birthday today, coinciding with the anticipation of his re-election for…
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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO): Bloating, Brain Fog, and Misdiagnosis
Imagine finishing a regular lunch and spending the rest of the afternoon looking six months pregnant. Or sitting through an…
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Sickle Cell Disease: Beyond the Crisis — the Systemic Effects of This Blood Disorder
Sickle cell disease is a serious inherited blood disorder affecting hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells. The condition…
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How George Soros Turned Global Macro Investing Into a Winning Strategy
Few investors have reshaped how the financial world thinks about risk and reward the way George Soros has. Born György…
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From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system
Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world – but as an epidemiologist,…
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Supreme Court preserves access to mifepristone via telehealth – at least for now
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that patients can continue to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for…
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Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story
Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly,…
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How Do Vaccines Work?
Imagine training your body’s army to defeat an enemy before the enemy ever shows up. That’s exactly what a vaccine…
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Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients
Some clinical trials aren’t designed to answer scientific questions. They’re designed to market drugs. In our recently published research, my…
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