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Magnet mishap puts would-be inventor of virus device in hospital

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Magnet mishap puts would-be inventor of virus device in hospital

An Australian astrophysicist bored by coronavirus isolation saw his attempted invention to stop people catching the disease go hilariously wrong when he landed in hospital with magnets stuck up his nose.

Mar 31, 2020

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New app launched for public to help pioneering hand identification research

Scientists behind a pioneering hand-identification research programme are launching a new app and are calling on thousands of members of the public to help.

Feb 27, 2020

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Author to fight retraction of study linking vaping to heart attack risk

(HealthDay)—A journal's retraction of a study linking electronic cigarettes with an increased risk for heart attack is being challenged by the author.

Feb 25, 2020

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Medical school mistreatment tied to race, gender, and sexual orientation

Medical school students are being mistreated by fellow students, medical faculty, and supervising residents based on their race, gender, and sexual orientation, according to a new study led by Yale University researchers.

Feb 25, 2020

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UK medical schools failing to deal with racism, finds BMJ investigation

Medical schools in the UK are unprepared to deal with the racism and racial harassment experienced by black and ethnic minority students, an investigation by The BMJ has found.

Feb 12, 2020

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Tenet Healthcare to pay $1.4M to settle cardiac lawsuit

Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary cardiac monitors ...

Feb 11, 2020

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Wilderness Medical Society issues important new clinical practice guidelines

The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) has released new clinical practice guidelines in a supplement to Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, published by Elsevier. This issue features updates to previously published clinical ...

Feb 05, 2020

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Top doctors 'undertest' patients to demonstrate diagnostic prowess to peers, study finds

Some expert medical diagnosticians may limit the number of patient tests they order as a way to signal a high level of competence to their peers, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Jan 31, 2020

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Dynamic personalize care: Implementing an in-clinic mathematical prediction app

The DASPO-group for data analysis and survival for personalized oncology has developed an app that provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Patients with soft tissue sarcoma ...

Jan 22, 2020

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Regional outreach boosts female medical residency recruitment

Outreach to female medical students may improve recruitment into orthopedic surgery resident programs, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Surgical Education.

Jan 20, 2020

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Six curious facts about smell

Don't underestimate the power of your nose. It makes our everyday eating experience pleasant and interesting and it warns us of spoiled food, corked wine and the dangers of gas and smoke. It evokes strong emotional reactions, ...

Jan 14, 2020

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'Gift of life' marketing fails to motivate many blood and organ donors

With a global shortage of both blood and organ donors, QUT researchers are suggesting language used to attract donors be changed, especially for organ donor donation.

Jan 10, 2020

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A medical insight in Michelangelo's David, 'hiding in plain sight'

Michelangelo's David is perhaps the world's most famous statue, gazed upon by millions over centuries.

Dec 26, 2019

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E-cigarette influencers to be banned from Instagram, Facebook

Social media influencers who market electronic cigarette products will be banned from Facebook and Instagram, the companies say.

Dec 20, 2019

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Sex in an MRI scanner—a look back at one of the most popular BMJ articles of all time

This Christmas marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal" in The BMJ.

Dec 18, 2019

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US, UK approve Roche's $4.3 bn purchase of gene therapy group Spark

Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche said it had received the necessary approval from competition authorities to acquire US gene-therapy group Spark, after the two companies reached a multibillion-dollar deal earlier this year.

Dec 17, 2019

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Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed, says researcher

For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female physician and a role model for women entering medicine. Yet a researcher from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus ...

Dec 16, 2019

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Best of Last Year: The top MedicalXpress articles of 2019

It was another good year for medical innovation as a trio of researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on how cells adapt to oxygen. Americans William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza, and Britain Peter Ratcliffe ...

Dec 13, 2019 report

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Facebook asked to remove 'factually inaccurate' ads about PrEP

Facebook should remove "factually inaccurate" ads that "suggest negative health effects" of the HIV-prevention medication Truvada, more than 50 LGBTQ, HIV, and public health groups say in an open letter to the company.

Dec 13, 2019

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Penn Medicine uses social media-style memes and gifs to encourage staff recognition

By their nature, hospitals are fast-paced environments that can induce some stress in the people who work there. Often, the roles taken on by people saving others' lives are somewhat thankless. For this reason, Penn Medicine's ...

Dec 11, 2019