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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Inaccurately recording the start of anesthesia care during a procedure is common and results in significant lost billing time for anesthesia practices and medical centers, suggests a study being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' ADVANCE 2023, the Anesthesiology Business Event. The anesthesia start time (AST) must be documented from

Skip to main content January 27, 2023 12:39 PM University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine on Thursday joined a growing list of elite schools to end their participation in U.S. News & World Report's medical school rankings. In a letter to U.S. News, Dr. Mark Anderson, Pritzker's dean, cited concerns about methodology and equity, asking U.S.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of East Anglia have solved an 80-year-old medical mystery of the cause of kidney damage in children, which can be fatal in babies. Those affected by the condition cannot metabolize vitamin D properly, causing a build-up of calcium in the blood and leading to kidney damage and

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Was the shift to virtual visits during the pandemic with primary care physicians associated with increased emergency department visits? A new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) found no evidence that patients with a primary care physician in Ontario visited the emergency department as a substitution for in-person physician

Jan. 19, 2023 -- An emerging trend in virtual reality – incorporating smell – could be exciting news not just for gaming but for health care as well.A growing number of hospitals across the country are using virtual reality to help patients manage pain, overcome phobias, and calm anxiety. Providers and patients report mostly good results

Identification of a unique heterozygous mutation in the IRF4 gene in seven CID patients. Credit: Science Immunology (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.ade7953 An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center immunogeneticist Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, Ph.D., has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia. The discovery, reported

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff January 21, 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

Jan. 18, 2023 – Only about 4% of men who signed up to be sperm donors in the United States or Denmark completed the process and had their sperm frozen for use in medically assisted reproduction, new research reveals. Some men apply online, have their sperm tested, but do not go any further in the process.