There's a lot of medical and scientific jargon out there when the coronavirus is being discussed. And while we try to translate jargon into plain language for our news articles, we know you might ...

Medicine has its own unique language. Well before matriculating, the medical school applicant is bombarded with a litany of terms and acronyms. Being exposed to the nomenclature can help to ease the ...

When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

Screening – any test that is carried out routinely among healthy individuals to identify tumors before they become symptomatic. A good example of a screening test is a mammogram to detect breast ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

Every day it seems a biotech company releases data for a promising new drug that it hopes will cure some dreaded disease, but has been studied only in a handful of people so far. Or a big university ...

A doctor and a linguist at Duke University have put together their skills to solve a problem in medical diagnostics: When patients describe symptoms or illnesses, their doctor may have no idea what ...

When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

It can be confusing to navigate the world of health insurance. However, understanding some common terms can help. The following list is a glossary of some commonly used health insurance terms. It is ...

Dictionary.com recently unveiled its Summer Word Drop of new words that have been added to the online dictionary. And the new entries included three medical terms, five climate change and warm weather ...