Ask anyone if they remember where they ate the juiciest burger, the sweetest cupcake or the smoothest bisque, and they
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Frequent use of the ER fell after the Affordable Care Act
The odds of being a frequent user of California’s emergency departments dropped in the two years following the implementation of
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Slips of the ear: When knowledge deceives perception
Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is
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How Penn Medicine looks at telehealth from the patient perspective
The benefits of telemedicine are no longer being debated. Clearly, convenience and efficiencies are associated with providing this level of
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Immunoscore—a test to improve the care and treatment of colon cancer
With Immunoscore, a test devised by a team of researchers from Inserm and Université Paris Descartes and doctors from the
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Researchers find that silent carriers of malaria are unlikely to develop the disease
In regions where malaria illness is widespread, it is common to find many individuals who are infected with malaria parasites
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Waves move across the human brain to support memory
The coordination of neural activity across widespread brain networks is essential for human cognition. Researchers have long assumed that oscillations
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Marijuana for pain: The best strains for chronic pain relief
Today, chronic pain affects more people than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. Chronic pain is the most common cause
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Team is first to identify the perinexus in the human heart; potential implications for atrial fibrillation
A collaborative research team is on a quest to collapse a tiny pocket between cardiac cells that can cause big
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As mystery deepens over the cause of Alzheimer’s, researchers seek new answers
For more than 20 years, much of the leading research on Alzheimer’s disease has been guided by the “amyloid hypothesis.”
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