In the early months of 2020, many mainstream news media laughingly called concerns that there were more deaths reported from COVID than could be attributed to the disease a “death toll conspiracy”1 they said was led by conservative Republicans and “anti-vaxxers.”2 Yet, a few short months later, data confirm what many already knew: The number… Read More »
By TALAL HILAL, MD The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, a test co-sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), has been the exam that people love to hate. For many years, blogs, Twitter feeds, and opinion pieces have been accumulating urging the… Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration has plans to make the database that houses medical device reports submitted to the agency more user friendly. As part of FDA’s efforts to modernize its information technology systems, the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database will be getting an overhaul, according to the agency. Each year, the… Read More »
A group of more than 60 leading international neuroscientists, including Mark Herceg, PhD, a neuropsychologist at Northwell Health’s Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and a member of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, published a correspondence today in The Lancet Neurology, asking for balance when reporting on sports-related injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE… Read More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday issued new rules to tighten notification of cases of African swine fever, including incentives for whistleblowers, amid concerns that outbreaks of the highly contagious disease are being under reported. FILE PHOTO: Piglets are seen at a farm in Suining in southwest China’s Sichuan province June 18, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo… Read More »