Wiki Education recently announced that UC San Francisco Health Sciences Professor Amin Azzam, MD, will lead its inaugural ...

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UB researchers have compiled a list of words physicians should never say to patients with complex, chronic disorders that are ...

Medical PTSD is a serious and growing phenomenon that impacts patients and their families. By understanding its causes, ...

We are delighted to have been awarded a £9 million Wellcome grant to develop a new Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH). The Platform will create space for experimentation and ...

Four themes will be central to the course: cultural and social constructions of health, disease, illness and the body, and the role of medical pluralism. the significance of power relations and ...

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Editor’s Note: This quiz contains medical terms taken from the Instructional Guidelines in 2015 that accompany the National EMS Education Standards. Each of the terms in this quiz was found ...

Dear Carol: I’m frustrated with medical people who think family caregivers should automatically understand their abbreviated terms. At appointments, my mom’s doctor asks about IADLs and ADLs ...

I'm Todd Unger, AMA's chief experience officer in Chicago. Laurie, for those of us that might not be familiar, what is medical terminology and why is it so important? McGraw: Great, thanks Todd. And ...