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Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff January 14, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up

Mineka Furtch wasn’t bothered by the idea of morning sickness after going through a miscarriage and the roller coaster of fertility medication before she finally became pregnant with her son. But when the 29-year-old from suburban Atlanta was five weeks pregnant in 2020, she started throwing up and couldn’t stop. Some days she kept down

Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has achieved a top score globally for the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator.  Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. The hospital scored 365/400 for the DHI.  WHY IT

Skip to main content January 12, 2023 01:00 PM Verily, a precision health company and subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is laying off around 15% of its employees, the company said in a blog post Wednesday.  Verily CEO Stephen Gillett said the layoffs were due to the company’s larger restructuring efforts and elimination of

Spider plots with probability (in %) for different syndromes. Groups of patients are plotted together, and the respective correct diagnosis based on clinical criteria is written in red bold letters and framed within a box. Abbreviations: AD Alzheimer’s disease; bvFTD behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; CBS corticobasal syndrome; lvPPA logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia; nfvPPA nonfluent variant

Each state has its own laws governing the investigation of violent and unexplained deaths, and the expertise and training of those in charge of such investigations vary widely across the nation. The job can be held by an elected coroner as young as 18 or a highly trained physician appointed as medical examiner. Rulings on

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research reveals private equity firms that acquire physician-owned medical practices experience greater replacement of the workforce and rely more heavily on advanced practice providers—such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners—rather than physicians. The study is the first to characterize the shift in workforce composition following private equity acquisition. It was

Public Health & Policy > Equity in Medicine — Debt disparities start long before postgrad training; debt forgiveness could provide relief by Sophie Putka, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today January 9, 2023 Medical resident trainees bear the burden of debt inequitably along racial and ethnic lines, according to a cross-sectional study. Among over 120,000