Background In a sample of 30,195 randomly selected hospital records, we identified 1133
patients (3.7 percent) with disabling injuries caused by medical treatment. We report here an …

This paper discusses the puzzling problem of large differences in per capita use of certain
common surgical procedures among neighboring populations, which by all available …

The Devonian–Carboniferous transition marks a fundamental shift in the surface environment
primarily related to changes in ocean–atmosphere oxidation states 1 , 2 , resulting from the …

Background Generalised myasthenia gravis is a chronic, unpredictable, and debilitating rare
disease, often accompanied by high treatment burden and with an unmet need for more …

For nearly two decades, an atmosphere of crisis has enveloped our system of medical-malpractice
litigation and liability insurance. Courts have expanded the limits of tort liability, an …

Post-COVID-19 conditions, also known as ‘Long-COVID-19’, describe a longer and more
complex course of illness than acute COVID-19 with no widely accepted uniform case definition…

Most chronic diseases follow a socioeconomic gradient with higher rates in lower socioeconomic
groups. A growing body of research, however, reveals cancer to be a disease group …

BACKGROUND: The population-level impact of modifiable postmenopausal breast cancer
risk factors is incompletely understood, especially regarding potential heterogeneity by …

Background Summary measures such as disability-adjusted life years (DALY) are becoming
increasingly important for the standardized assessment of the burden of disease due to …

The monitoring of cancer survival by population‐based cancer registries is a prerequisite to
evaluate the current quality of cancer care. Our study provides 1‐, 5‐ and 10‐year relative …