Do Patients Benefit From Long Shifts for Medical Trainees?

What are the effects of long duty-hours on physicians in residency?

Do Patients Benefit From Long Shifts for Medical Trainees?

F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, shares insights from a review of recent study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

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Organ Regeneration Remains Top Priority at 2018 World Stem Cell Summit

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Borrowing Imaging Techniques from Seismology for Medical Research

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Precision Medicine

ESMO Focuses on Unifying the Language of Precision Medicine

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Professional Development

How’s Your Computer-Side Manner?

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Latest in Medical Students

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The Science of Longevity

What is Nutricula?

Jul 25, 2012 | Human Interest, Medical Students, Patient Education, Public Health & Prevention

Meet the world's only immortal animal: the jellyfish, Turritopsis Nurtricula. Robert Berger, PhD and Editor-in-Chief of Nutricula Magazine, explains the inspiration behind a magazine focused on teaching both physicians and patients how to live longer and healthier. Read the bio of Robert...

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Kids These Days

The 30 Under 30 of Science

Jul 16, 2012 | Human Interest, Medical Students, The Daily Dose

They're young, talented, and already making shelf-space for their eventual Nobel Prizes. Scientific American’s yearly "30 under 30" lauds the youngest members of the scientific community conducting breakthrough research. What happened to the days of model volcano experiments? Read it at Scientific...

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Case with 300% Mortality?

The 200th Anniversary of Surgery and Its ‘Brief’ History

Jul 16, 2012 | Human Interest, Medical Students, Surgery, The Daily Dose

Nineteenth century British surgeon Robert Liston "operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant's fingers along with a patient's leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known...

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