The "old friends" hypothesis was proposed by Graham Rook in 2003 as an alternative to or refinement of the hygiene hypothesis, originally brought forward by Strachan in 1989 as an explanation for the ...

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s CDC just funneled a $1.6 million dollar grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose o ...

Nearly a year ago, Tennessee became the first state in the U.S. to scrap residency requirements for certain international medical graduates (IMGs), opening up an alternative pathway to permanent ...

The COMLEX is necessary for graduation, while USMLE scores—AMA policy advocates that the exams be viewed equally—are more commonly used as a metric in the residency-selection process. What should ...

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