Skip to content

Med-stat.info

The latest health news

  • Coronavirus
  • Biotech
  • Health Tech
  • First Opinion
  • In the Lab
  • Pharma
Main Menu

Tag: profiles

In the Lab

Hundreds of families share a lethal inheritance. This kidney researcher hopes to break the chain

02.05.2022

Autumn Steen roiled in the pew of the chapel, Bowditch Union Free Will Baptist Church — the one she could see from home, the house of God she knew so …

Read More
Health Tech

He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech

26.04.2022

Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner for a super-competitive dermatology residency: He had a double degree from Harvard University, experience as …

Read More
Health

‘We don’t have a say’: Siobhan Wescott wants to elevate the voices of Native Americans in public health

05.04.2022

As the first endowed professor and director of American Indian health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public Health, Siobhan Wescott wears many hats and, often, a …

Read More
Health

‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators

28.03.2022

BERKELEY, Calif. — If, in the fall of 1987, you found yourself at the University of California, Berkeley, and you made your way through the sloping, verdant campus to Moffitt …

Read More
Health

The internet’s funniest doctor is in on the joke

25.03.2022

Will Flanary’s days are spent conducting eye exams and cataract surgeries at a private practice outside Portland, Ore. The evenings are for family, and a standing commitment to make dinner …

Read More
Health

Q&A: The CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association on the approval of Aduhelm — and why critics should stop dwelling on the decision

16.06.2021

Harry Johns is ready to stop talking about whether or not the Food and Drug Administration should have approved Aduhelm, the divisive new Alzheimer’s treatment that got the green light …

Read More
Coronavirus / Health

How Ashish Jha became network TV’s everyman expert on Covid

18.05.2021

Chances are you’ve seen Ashish Jha during the pandemic, though you had never heard of him before. He seemed to come out of nowhere — bespectacled, professorial, his tie sometimes …

Read More
Coronavirus / Health

A ‘duty to warn’: An ER doctor, shaped by war and hardship, chronicles the searing realities of Covid-19

21.12.2020

As a combat medic deployed with the Marines in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Cleavon Gilman saw bodies torn apart by IEDs. He heard agonizing screams, saw burned flesh and penetrating trauma. …

Read More
In the Lab

Watch: How did you get your start in science? And other questions with the STAT Wunderkinds

16.11.2020

What got you interested in science? How would you explain your research to a 10-year-old? And how has that research changed during the Covid-19 pandemic? STAT posed those questions to …

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 Next
Copyright © Med-stat.info
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy