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10/30/2023
A California physician was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for conspiring with a pharmacist to illegally distribute controlled substances. Should the pharmacist receive a similar sentence?
10/30/2023
10/18/2023
Researchers sought to find an association and prevalence of hepatitis C infection during pregnancy using data from 1998 to 2018.
10/18/2023
09/19/2023
A 62-year-old White man presented to our emergency department with symptoms of right-sided facial numbness and dysarthria. He also had been having abdominal pain for the previous 5 days, which was...
09/19/2023
Interactive Features
10/30/2023
A California physician was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for conspiring with a pharmacist to illegally distribute controlled substances. Should the pharmacist receive a similar sentence?
10/30/2023
04/26/2018
A 56-year-old house painter fell off a ladder and fractured 3 ribs. He was prescribed tramadol for pain relief. A few days later, the results of a urine drug test came back positive for methadone. The man...
04/26/2018
Clinical Insights
02/27/2023
As the number of new hepatitis C virus infections continues to rise in the United States, rapid diagnosis and treatment of high-risk patients is more important than ever. In this Q&A, Benjamin Eckhardt, MD,...
02/27/2023
