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Assertive pharmacists can play key role in minimizing unnecessary drug prescriptions
Assertiveness—a communication style that involves frank self-expression while respecting others—is considered a teachable skill and has been regarded as useful in improving the safety of medical care. Researchers at the ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Firings at federal health agencies decimate offices that release public records
Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will slow after mass firings at the federal Department of Health and Human Services swept ...
Apr 7, 2025
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FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership
The Food and Drug Administration's chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.
Apr 1, 2025
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Layoffs begin at the nation's health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices just days after ...
Apr 1, 2025
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Comparing virtual and in-person learning among medical students
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, when much of medical education shifted from in-person to virtual settings, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers have sought to understand how virtual learning environments impact medical ...
Mar 31, 2025
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Exploring care professionals' perspectives on education, awareness of health issues for TNBI individuals
A recent study by KI-researchers Nadia Davoody and Sravya Katta reveals significant gaps related to health care professionals' awareness of gender diversity, proper communication strategies, the specific needs of transgender, ...
Mar 31, 2025
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Job loss, mental health, and the fate of federal workers
The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Donald Trump was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this.
Mar 31, 2025
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LLMs like ChatGPT are ready to teach medical ethics, researchers argue
Perhaps no profession has stricter ethical standards than medicine, and ethics is considered essential in the education of any respected medical school. A new essay by researchers at Hiroshima University (Japan) provides ...
Mar 26, 2025
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Amid plummeting diversity at medical schools, a warning of DEI crackdown's 'chilling effect'
The Trump administration's crackdown on DEI programs could exacerbate an unexpectedly steep drop in diversity among medical school students, even in states like California, where public universities have been navigating bans ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Will mummy make it better? The curious case of mummified remedies in early modern medicine
The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is "mumia"—a medicinal substance derived from mummified human remains.
Mar 24, 2025
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Swiss meditech Alcon inks eyecare deal with US's Lensar
Swiss eyecare firm Alcon said on Monday it has agreed to a deal worth a potential $430 million with US counterpart Lensar, which offers advanced laser solutions for cataract treatments.
Mar 24, 2025
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200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in
Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.
Mar 20, 2025
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When patients are harmed in hospital, issues aren't always addressed to prevent recurrence
Over the past two weeks, the media has reported several cases of serious "adverse events," where babies, children and an adult experienced harm and ultimately died while receiving care in separate Australian hospitals.
Mar 10, 2025
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The role of pharmacists in identifying and addressing domestic violence
Integrating domestic violence (DV) education into pharmacy curriculum is a vital step to equipping pharmacists with the necessary skills to effectively address DV, according to a new Monash study published in the journal ...
Mar 6, 2025
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Pfizer and BioNTech COVID vaccine broke patent: German court
A German court found Wednesday that American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German firm BioNTech violated a patent to make their COVID-19 vaccine.
Mar 5, 2025
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COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren't enough to eliminate a disease
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn't require precaution. Nonetheless, ...
Mar 5, 2025
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Representation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations in the US health workforce
A new study by researchers from The George Washington University highlights the critical need for disaggregating data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations in the U.S. health workforce ...
Mar 4, 2025
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Addressing workplace violence for student nurses
In light of growing pressures on the nursing profession, including staff shortages, more needs to be done to combat workplace violence, say Flinders University researchers.
Feb 11, 2025
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Actor David Tennant has an extra toe. Two anatomists explain what's so fascinating about polydactyly
A common anatomical variation is being born with more than ten fingers or more than ten toes.
Feb 6, 2025
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What is sexsomnia? And how can it be used as a defense in court?
Over the past decade, "sexsomnia" has been used as a defense in a number of Australian sexual assault trials.
Feb 6, 2025
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What the 'moral distress' of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions.
Feb 4, 2025
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Leonardo da Vinci's incredible studies of human anatomy still don't get the recognition they deserve
The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last Supper are considered works ...
Feb 3, 2025
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The runaway alligator and other bizarre calls that hampered UK ambulance dispatchers
If your pet alligator escapes, don't call for an ambulance—unless it has sunk its teeth into someone.
Feb 1, 2025
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Experts publish framework for global adoption of digital health in medical education
A group of 211 international experts from 79 countries has published a new framework to facilitate the design, development and implementation of digital health curricula in medical education worldwide.
Jan 31, 2025
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