Opinion | How Much Anguish Must Residents Experience?
Nwodim is an emergency medicine resident. I just completed intern year of my emergency medicine (EM) residency. It was rewarding, but also the most emotionally laborious year of my life. Amidst becoming a family member’s caretaker due to illness, and then working 60- to 90-hour weeks, my emotional anguish experienced as an EM resident has […]
Most Patients Successfully Self-Manage Medication Abortion, Study Shows
In several countries, nearly all participants successfully completed a self-managed medication abortion without procedural intervention, a prospective observational study showed. In Argentina, Nigeria, and Southeast Asia, nine out of every ten individuals completed a self-managed medication abortion, which compares with data from randomized clinical trials. Among those who took misoprostol only, 95.7% had success, reported […]
New study overturns popular theory on evolution of termite size
Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 species of termites and determined that their size isn’t gradually shrinking at a geological timescale. Termites belong to the cockroach branch of the evolutionary tree. They split from their sister cockroach group at the end of the Jurassic period, around 150 to […]
New treasure trove of globular clusters holds clues about galaxy evolution
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters — old, dense groups of thousands of stars that all formed at the same time — in the outer regions of the elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. The work presents a significant advance in understanding the […]
Moderna Tees Up for Approval; Boosters Now at 6 Months? Infusion Pump Recall
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Moderna said it completed the application for full FDA approval of its COVID vaccine, which is marketed as Spikevax abroad. Not to be outdone, Pfizer and BioNTech said they would submit the remaining data for approval of their COVID booster shots by week’s end. Speaking of […]
Physicians: Stop Dreading Call
Even though I completed residency almost 15 years ago, it is easy to remember the dread I experienced before taking hospital call. The sinking feeling in my stomach as the call date loomed near, the hypervigilance and terror every time my beeper went off in the middle of the night, the fear of imagined catastrophes […]