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Special Reports > Features — A new release date for the complete rankings has yet to be issued by Jennifer Henderson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today April 24, 2023 A little more than a week after U.S. News & World Report previewed its annual list of the best medical schools, the sneak peek has

Marcus Cummins grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor, but the Central Valley, California, native didn’t have Black physicians to look up to. At times he doubted himself, but he credits the determination he developed as a receiver on the University of California-Davis football team to get him through his studies. “Being a collegiate athlete

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For children under age 18 years, a single computed tomography (CT) scan is not associated with an increased risk of brain tumours, leukemia or lymphoma, but exposure to 4 or more scans before adulthood more than doubles the risk, according to new research in Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). Computed tomography

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff April 22, 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

At Mayo Clinic Platform, Dr. Sonya Makhni focuses on data systems transformation and machine learning projects – with a special focus on mitigating and minimizing bias in artificial intelligence algorithms.   To coincide with her recent appearance at the HIMSS23 Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare Forum, we spoke with Makhni recently about the potential –

In this series premiere of Practice Matters, Payal Kohli, MD, founder of Cherry Creek Heart in Denver, and the 9News/Daily Blast Live medical expert, discusses the pros and cons of owning a private practice, and what questions you should ask yourself before starting. The following is a transcript of her remarks: Hello everyone, and welcome

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe last summer, some states have been weighing and enacting dangerously restrictive abortion bans. Just last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a ban outlawing abortions in the state after six weeks gestation (despite the fact that nearly a third of pregnant people don’t know they’re pregnant until the six-week mark) and forcing people

MIT researchers have developed a wearable patch that applies painless ultrasonic waves to the skin, creating tiny channels that drugs can pass through. Credit: Chia‐Chen Yu et al The skin is an appealing route for drug delivery because it allows drugs to go directly to the site where they're needed, which could be useful for