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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 April 8, 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

Skip to main content A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered a hold on the U.S. approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, throwing into question access to the nation’s most common method of abortion in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval. The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S.

Skip to main content Stephanie Colombini, WUSF At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community. Local Tracy Green, 54, joined the line outside a pink-and-white bus that offered

At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community. Local Tracy Green, 54, joined the line outside a pink-and-white bus that offered free mammograms. “It’s a blessing because some

Pop Medicine > Pop Medicine — An examination by a forensic psychiatrist by Susan Hatters Friedman, MD April 5, 2023 I'm the rare girl who went to medical school with a love of watching whodunits and ended up -- 10 gruelling years later -- a forensic psychiatrist. Forensic psychiatry is the most thrilling job imaginable

Medical device innovations have enhanced healthcare and improved patient care, but they present a broad attack surface for healthcare organizations. NETSpi, a security service company, hosted medical device product security experts to talk about the business and challenges of securing connected technologies in healthcare. They addressed sharing information across teams throughout the product lifecycle, building

Menu By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A family vacation to remember, but maybe not for the best reasons.Doctors report on an unusual case where a hungry iguana bit a vacationing toddler’s hand, passing on an infection with a germ called Mycobacterium marinum.A 3-year-old girl named Lena Mars, of San Jose

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from researchers in the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity (LEAD) Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus shows that 90 percent of pregnant women do not receive adequate nutrients during pregnancy from food alone and must look to supplements to fill that deficit. However, they also discovered