Superbugs Common in Patients on Mechanical Ventilation Those in long-term care facilities are particularly at risk, researcher says Oct 12, 2023
COVID Influence May Have Violated First Amendment; New 9/11 Victims; 'Elephant Skin' Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Ƶ staff Sep 11, 2023
The Maui Fires: A Forensic Pathologist's Perspective on the Aftermath Challenges lie ahead Aug 22, 2023
Handheld Pen Helps Surgeons Distinguish Between Thyroid, Parathyroid Tissues Dye-less device works in about 15 seconds Aug 02, 2023
Positive Surgical Margins More Likely Among Black Men With Oral Cancer Post-operative treatment, long-term survival may be affected Jul 11, 2023
Liquid Biopsy May Help Identify HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Cancer But concerns about false negative results linger Jul 10, 2023
Can AI Help Determine if Liver Cancer Will Respond to Standard Treatment? Early model suggests a way to predict progression-free survival Jun 26, 2023
Fecal Matter Transplant Shows Promise in Cirrhosis Pilot trial demonstrates that FMT can boost gut health, prevent serious infections Jun 25, 2023
Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Varies by Molecular Subtype Korean study suggests need for individualized surveillance, optimized use of breast MRI Jun 21, 2023
Fired Morgue Worker Sued Over 'Graphic, Macabre' Social Media Posts Northwell Health charged that Quantaise Sharpton's posts showed internal organs, body parts May 09, 2023
Children's HIV Deaths in Africa Largely Preventable Half of kids under age 5 not diagnosed before death, CHAMPS study found Feb 22, 2023
Medical Board Takes Action Against Misinformation Doc Pathologist Ryan Cole, MD, is facing discipline for negligence, spreading false statements Jan 19, 2023
Myth-Busting Pathology Misconceptions There's so much more to the field than most people realize Jan 03, 2023
Autopsies Show COVID-19 in the Brain What this means for neurologic COVID symptoms remains elusive Dec 26, 2022
Boston University Refutes Claims It Created Deadly New COVID Strain Media reports misrepresent animal study and misconstrue its findings, expert says Oct 18, 2022
Bone Marrow Biopsy Value Limited in Follicular Lymphoma Response Assessment Information useful in fewer than 1% of patients with untreated disease Jul 10, 2022
Studies Reinforce Prognostic Role for Circulating Tumor Cells in Myeloma At higher levels, different cutoffs show at least a doubling of PFS, OS hazard ratios Jun 13, 2022
How a COVID Misdiagnosis Revealed Deadly Aromatherapy Outbreak Case "highlights the importance of autopsy," medical examiner says May 11, 2022
False Negatives Still Common With COVID PCR Testing Pathologist says one in five people get negative result even if they have COVID Jan 21, 2022
Formaldehyde Exposure Linked to Cognitive Impairment Healthcare workers represent majority of those exposed in French cohort Dec 22, 2021
Pathologists Consider 'Workaround' So Patients Don't Freak Out Over EHR Bad News Doctors worry patients will misconstrue language or be psychologically harmed without guidance Oct 28, 2021
We Know the Manner of Gabby Petito's Death. But What's the Cause? All we have at this stage is public speculation Sep 30, 2021
Transplant Docs Are Sticking With Invasive Biopsies After Heart Transplants Agreement that non-invasive alternatives to EMB are not ready for routine rejection surveillance Sep 13, 2021
Another Ivermectin Flop; 'Instant' Lung Cancer Decision Tool; Triple COPD Tx & Death Highlights from the European Respiratory Society virtual meeting Sep 08, 2021
Common Hospital PCR Test Affected by Viral Variant Cepheid Xpert joins three other tests for which B.1.1.7 can be problematic Apr 05, 2021
Time to Revisit Distant Nodal Status in Breast Cancer Curability? Comparable survival for distant and regional nodal involvement, when treated similarly Mar 16, 2021
Whole-Genome Sequencing Makes a Case in Leukemia Study More actionable alterations detected in myeloid malignancies versus cytogenetics Mar 10, 2021
Primary Progressive Aphasia in Alzheimer's Doesn't Foretell Memory Loss No memory decline over more than 2 years in small study, though speech deficits grew Jan 13, 2021
Is This Really Cancer? Movement builds to classify Gleason 6 prostate lesions as nonmalignant Jan 09, 2021
Physicians Push Back on Trump's Claim of Inflated COVID Deaths Accusations provoke outrage; but president has his believers too Oct 27, 2020
COVID Heart Autopsies Point More to Clot Damage Than Myocarditis Results bolster case for anticoagulation in hospitalized patients Oct 15, 2020
Was COVID-19 Really the Killer? Panel addresses determination of "death from" versus "death with" coronavirus infection Oct 15, 2020
CDC: Most Kids Dying From Coronavirus Had Underlying Conditions Enormous racial-ethnic disparities revealed as well Sep 15, 2020
The World Brain Death Project: Answering the Wrong Questions Humility around death serves us and our patients best Aug 30, 2020
Smoking Gun Found for Virus in MIS-C Heart Damage Case First case report documenting viral particles in the heart in MIS-C Aug 24, 2020
