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Medical News Today is a web-based outlet for medical information and news, targeted at both the general public and physicians. All posted content is available online (>250,000 articles as of January 2014), and the earliest available article dates from May 2003.
In 2013, UCSF School of Medicine began to offer fourth-year medical students a month-long elective centered around improving Wikipedia's health-related articles. Between 2013 and 2015, 43 students took part in the course and chose a single health-related article to work on.
The wiki allows anyone with a medical background to contribute or edit medical articles, of which there are over 2,000 as of 2013. The purpose of the site was to provide reliable and easily accessed health information for the medical community including physicians, nurses, and medical students.
The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department says no survivors are expected after the midair collision between an American Airlines airliner and a military helicopter last night over Washington, D.C., United States, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. since American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001.
After declining from 2002 to 2012, stroke death rates for middle-aged adults increased 7% between 2012 and 2019, and increased an additional 12% through 2021, the CDC found.
The news service MedPage Today was founded by Robert S. Stern in March 2005. [4] [5] In January 2010, the organization was provided approval for offering American Academy of Family Physicians-accredited CME credits in collaboration with the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance by cofounders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a pro-single payer lobbying group, showed that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of patient health insurance. The study also found that uninsured, working Americans have an approximately 40% ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness This article is about the science of healing. For medicaments, see Medication. For other uses, see Medicine (disambiguation). "Medical" redirects here. "Medical" is also the common informal term for a medical examination. Flag of World ...