Personal, social, economic, and environmental factors all contribute to the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease in the United States.

Identifies the principal causes of ischemic stroke and approaches to preventing recurrences.

How hepatitis C is diagnosed and treated and why treatment of most prisoners with the virus may be safely postponed until after their release from prison.

Raising occupational consciousness and critically questioning ahistorical and apolitical uses of "battle" is needed for responding to antimicrobial resistance.

Medical technology presents a new ethical question in the case of a patient with a left ventricular assist device who, when informed that he has pneumonia and is ineligible for a heart transplant, asks that the LVAD be turned off.

An examination of the effect that the Mammography Quality Standards Act has had on training and certification of radiologists and mammography technicians.

A physician examines the causes, symptoms, means of diagnosis, and treatment of three exotic diseases that have been featured on the television medical drama House.