An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America. Before the ad

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A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.

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Essays by leading researchers on the nature and genesis of laboratory medicine.