The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.

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Malaria toll ‘is twice as high’

The leading accreditation board listed the medical centers most diligent in following protocols to treat certain conditions, and the best-regarded hospitals in America were mostly not on it.

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Hospital Performance Improved, Report Finds

A statement by the medical examiner in Hennepin County, Minn., said the Rangers player’s death was accidental.

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Boogaard Died From Alcohol and Drug Mix

A panel of psychiatrists who studied the medical records of Bruce E. Ivins found that the F.B.I.’s case that he mailed the anthrax letters in 2001 was persuasive.

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Panel on Anthrax Inquiry Finds Case Against Ivins Persuasive

Another encouraging word from the medical team working to save Rep Gabrielle Gifford: her doctor said Monday morning that she is “holding her own,” and that CT scans show swelling in her brain is not getting any worse. “We are more and more…

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Doctor: Giffords ‘Holding Her Own’

A group of doctors is trumpeting a shocking medical breakthrough in the medical journal Blood: They say Timothy Ray Brown, a HIV-positive man, has been cured after receiving stem-cell treatment for leukemia. Brown got a bone marrow transplant in 2007,…

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Doctors Claim Cured HIV Patient

In only his second year as the medical director of the New York City Marathon, Dr. Stuart Weiss has introduced a new philosophy of treatment at the race.

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Doctor Prepared for the Worst at Marathon

A doctor accused of failing to spot signs that Baby P was being abused has her application to be removed from the medical register rejected.

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Baby P ‘resignation’ is refused

North Carolina authorities have been in contact with Zahra Baker’s biological mother in Australia and have asked for the medical records of the missing 10-year-old girl.

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Missing girl’s medical records sought

Dr. Greg Couser, M.D., is the medical director of the employee assistance program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He also holds a handful of other titles, including two that begin with director or assistant director. Needless to say, his job is demanding, but he typically doesn’t get too stressed out. Why?

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Is your job is making you depressed?

A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.

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G20 death pathologist suspended

The Scottish government faces calls to publish all the medical evidence which led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

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Lockerbie medical advice demanded