A generation after the modern invention of minimally invasive surgery, one of its inventors, Dr. Liselotte Mettler, tells what building a medical career was like for women when she started practice – and her memoir is co-authored with her husband’s point of view on marriage and family. The dual-memoir, Lovers...
Western science and Indigenous science are two very different methods of studying human health and the natural world. But as Canada continues its reconciliation process with Indigenous communities, a professor at the University of Calgary says the two perspectives are converging. "We're seeing, increasingly, respect and acknowledgment and partnership between...
Physicians across many specialties are treating trafficked persons in their practice. Yet, they are not trained to recognize human trafficking or know how to intervene. Studies have shown that 88 percent of US-born sex trafficking victims reported receiving medical care while being trafficked. This puts health care providers in a key position with...
Snapping at medical staff may cause bigger problems than patients realize, especially when it comes to the quality of care their children receive. Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that rude parents in the neonatal intensive care unit create a wider margin for medical error and misdiagnosis. Insensitive comments also lower effective...
A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels preserved at very low temperatures. The discovery is a major step forward in saving millions of human lives by increasing the availability of organs and tissues...
Washington’s two research universities are once again asking lawmakers for extra money for both of their medical-school programs in Spokane. But the frosty relationship between the University of Washington and Washington State University over medical-school funding seems to be a thing of the past. “Finally, we see this as behind...
A large proportion of medical students own smartphones and consequently, instant messaging applications have become a favored method of communication as opposed to e-mailing. Interestingly, past research has conveyed that the inclusion of mobile applications within dental and medical educational programs raised participation rates among students, improved communication between tutors...
I was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 28. In 2014, a few years after I was given the all-clear, I made the decision to become a doctor. One of my reasons for taking up medicine was to learn more about cancer, and to use that knowledge and...
Within a few months of arriving at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, a medical student may have already saved someone’s life. That’s because Greenville medical students spend their first seven weeks training to become certified emergency medical technicians (EMTs). After receiving EMT certification, students work one...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study authors report that, after implementation of the publicly funded state trauma system, preventable mortality rate decreased by 48 percent CHICAGO (March 8, 2017): Implementation of a statewide trauma system in Arkansas cut the rate of preventable deaths due to injuries nearly in...