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 ...

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 ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. Madeline Benuen says a language glossary for Innu-to-English, and vice ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A report produced by 1 of NICE's independent external assessment centres that reviews the sponsor's evidence submission and may include additional analysis of the submitted evidence or new clinical ...