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Another incident that is etched in my memory also relates to Dr Karunaratna. I happened to be in his surgery when a poor lady brought her sick child. Having seen and dispensed the drugs free, Dr ...

The move choked the production of a key solvent— isopropyl alcohol or IPA—used in essential medicines and life-saving drugs, and forced top drugmakers to warn of disruptions to medicine supplies, ...

The American Civil War fine-tuned the use of chloroform and ether as anaesthetics. It sounds very obvious now, but it wasn’t until World War I that it was realised that immobilising thigh fractures ...

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While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice. By Sarah Kwon As chatbots become a fixture in ...

Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care. Liagny Acosta holding her 2-week-old baby, Aíran, who is hospitalized for a ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was reported in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center with support from the Pulitzer Center. Andy Henard is used to doing things for himself. That’s the way ...