Fox has debuted the trailer for “Doc,” a new medical drama starring Molly Parker (“Deadwood,” “House of Cards”). The show is based on the hit Italian series “Doc — Nelle tue mani,” which is inspired by a true story. Parker plays Dr. Amy Larsen, the chief of internal and family medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis, […]
NASA has awarded Bastion Technologies Inc., of Houston, the Center Occupational Safety, Health, Medical, System Safety and Mission Assurance Contract (COSMC) at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The COSMC contract is a hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract, with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity component and maximum potential value of $53 million. The contract phase-in […]
Scientists’ investigation of a rare disorder in a single patient has solved medical mysteries affecting at least 30 people. These patients had a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from developmental delay to bone malformations, and even early death. However, it turns out that they all had conditions caused by a mutation in the same gene, […]
Jessie Milaski provides canine trauma training to first responders using a K9 simulator as part of a Mayo Clinic Military Medicine training course in 2022. Milaski was a Mayo Clinic military fellow for two years and now is in his second year of studies at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Arizona. Jessie Milaski […]
Cancer, heart disease, the common cold — these medical conditions are well-known by the public, in part, because they affect large numbers of people. But did you know there’s a genetic condition that causes babies to suddenly lose all their fat after birth? Or an aggressive autoimmune disorder that can cause the bridge of the […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis has been bred in captivity at London zoopart of a longer-term project to help this fascinating if unloved […]
Mika Abdalla has been tapped for a recurring role in Max’s upcoming medical drama “The Pitt.” Although details surrounding her character remain under wraps, her arc will span the show’s entire 15-episode season. Abdalla joins previously announced cast members Noah Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, […]
Cardi B has canceled an upcoming performance in Atlanta, Georgia, after being hospitalized due to a medical emergency. The rapper shared the update on her Instagram on Wednesday. “I am so sad to share this news, but I’ve been in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency the last couple of days and I won’t […]
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that voters will not be allowed to weigh in on a ballot measure to expand medical marijuana in the state, arguing that the initiative failed to fully explain what it entails. In a 4-3 decision, the justices threw out the initiative just two weeks before the election, according to […]
Earlier this year, two Harvard medical historians published an article on a leading American medical journal’s willful ignorance of Nazi atrocities in the 1930s and ’40s. The article found that the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious medical publications, either chose not to cover the Nazi regime’s racist […]
