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Dad, Mom, and 7 Kids, All Docs or Nurses, Go Viral With Photo The Okpalekes hope their family photo serves as a shining example of Black success. They hope to inspire others to help close the racial gap among clinicians and to address health disparities among patients.
News, June 11, 2021
Attacks on American Agents Leave Baffling Battle Scars The incidents are under investigation as public servants and some members of their families undergo medical care. One theory is agents are caught in the crosshairs of harmful spying devices.
News, June 11, 2021
Is HIV Criminalization the No. 1 Barrier to Ending the Epidemic? Despite significant advances in HIV research, prevention, and treatment, HIV is still criminalized both in the U.S. and abroad. Is this the ultimate challenge to ending the epidemic?
News, June 11, 2021
'Silicon Prairie' Ready for Quantum Leap The state of Nebraska has won $20 million to create next-generation quantum technology that will improve the way we diagnose and treat diseases and transfer information securely.
News, June 10, 2021
Your Weirdest Dreams Could Be Making You Smarter The unusual sights and sounds we experience in our dreams might not be random, and could play a role in the way we learn, according to new scientific findings.
News, June 04, 2021
CRC Screening: 45 Is the New 50, and 85 Is the New 75 Lowering the recommended age for colorectal cancer screening to 45 and continuing screening for many beyond 75 could save many thousands of lives, experts say.
News, June 03, 2021
Are These Docs Paid to Change Their Medical Opinion? With black lung on the rise again, so too are questions about whether doctors paid by coal companies are working to deny miners insurance benefits. A new study suggests the problem may be significant.
News, June 03, 2021
The Long and Shared History of Electricity and Medicine Two pioneering 18th-century researchers had a bitter philosophical disagreement about electricity and frog legs. One would win, but history would prove them both correct.
News, June 01, 2021
People Who Live Past 100 Have Good DNA Repair Genes For the first time, scientists have decoded the genomes of those older than 100 years in their quest to find out how centenarians avoid age-related diseases and survive longer than most people.
News, June 01, 2021
Clean Indoor Air Is Vital for Infection Control In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists say it's time to rate indoor air quality and clean it to prevent the spread of airborne illnesses.
News, May 27, 2021
Doctor/Spy: How MDs Get Involved in Espionage Some physicians use their clinical knowledge to help the CIA with its mission. Here's how.
News, May 26, 2021
After Prison, a Doctor Is Trying to Get Back His License A New York physician slid into years of addiction and of selling painkiller prescriptions. Now he's telling medical students his story so that they can learn that it's okay to ask for help.
News, May 25, 2021
Floating Holograms Coming to a Clinic Near You Airborne three-dimensional images that doctors can use to explain health problems are being generated by engineers from beams of laser light, just like in Star Wars.
News, May 20, 2021
This Scientist Is Auctioning Off His DNA and Says Yours is Valuable Too George Church's genetic information is for sale and the Harvard geneticist, who was one of the first people to ever have his genome sequenced, says personal information can be profitable.
News, May 19, 2021
New OSHA Standards Coming for COVID-19 Workplace Safety As health care unions and workers wait, here's what OSHA's new rules might cover and why many believe they're still relevant at this point in the pandemic.
News, May 17, 2021
Docs Question Chiropractic Approach Called 'Quantum Neurology' "Quantum neurology" is an example of the type of alleged pseudoscience that is popular among patients. Although ignoring such unproven practices may be tempting, here's what experts say doctors should know.
News, May 14, 2021
New Invention Speeds Up Walking Pace Engineers are designing lightweight, torque-controlled ankle supports to help walkers defy their limitations and propel forward faster.
News, May 14, 2021
Tech Giants Are Moving Into Healthcare The federal government is partnering with connectivity powerhouses like Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to transform the way health information is shared.
News, May 14, 2021
Are More Non-MDs Trying to Compete With Docs? Naturopaths are licensed in 22 states, and in seven states, they can call themselves "physician." Is their field of practice gaining ground?
News, May 12, 2021
New Clues Show How the Immune System Fights COVID-19 Scientists have focused on antibodies the immune system makes to protect people from one part of the coronavirus spike, but now they report that antibodies can shield in other areas too.
News, May 11, 2021

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