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Skip to main content January 17, 2023 04:29 PM PIERRE, S.D. — A group of South Dakota Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to outlaw gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, pushing the state to join at least a dozen others considering anti-transgender legislation this year. The South Dakota bill, unveiled at a state Capitol

CI-994 induces apoptosis and downregulates MYC expression in MYC-driven medulloblastoma cell lines. (A) Representative FACS analysis of MED8A and D425 MED cells treated either with DMSO (control), 5 or 7.5µM of CI-994 for 48 hours, and bar graphs displaying the mean of n=4 replicates. CI-994 treatment resulted in a dose-dependent increase in mean early apoptotic

Skip to main content January 16, 2023 05:00 AM MH Illustration/Getty Images Winston Medical Center treats about three acute-care patients a day in its 14-bed hospital. In theory, the Louisville, Mississippi-based facility should be an ideal candidate to convert to the rural emergency hospital model, which as of Jan. 1 gives a reimbursement boost and

Skip to main content January 16, 2023 05:00 AM Jackie Molloy Participants in Morehouse School of Medicine’s More in Common Alliance, a partnership with the nonprofit system CommonSpirit Health. For the first time in nearly half a century, the number of Black medical schools is on the rise in the United States. Two new medical

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