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A doctor struck off in France kept practicing in Belgium, exposing how gaps in EU medical oversight can let sanctioned clinicians cross borders.

A woman with rare breast adenoid cystic carcinoma carries a BRIP1 variant of uncertain significance, highlighting the challenges in genetic risk assessment.

Skin collagen content decreases at a rate of approximately 1%-2% per year in the early postmenopausal period, skin thickness diminishes, barrier function weakens, and moisture retention falters

(Corrects paragraph 2 to say Hympavzi is the first non-factor therapy particularly for pediatric patients with hemophilia ⁠B, not all)

Dr Yash Varma, a chief cardiology fellow, asks Dr Ileana Piña for her insights on when a patient with heart failure should be referred for advanced therapies.

The largest randomized trial of its kind to date found noninferior survival and better arm morbidity among patients with breast cancer who did not undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection.

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