Norma McCorvey -- who 47 years ago was plaintiff Jane Roe in the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case -- died Saturday at age 69 from heart failure. (Reuters)
A third-year medical student used VisualDx to aid in making her first diagnosis -- and the patient was her 3-year-old niece who had a rare but dangerous eye infection. Lisa Sanders, MD, presents the case in her Diagnosis column in the New York Times Magazine.
A Stand-Up for Science rally in Boston's Copley Square drew what The Boston Globe described as "hundreds" of participants. The rally was organized to protest "President Trump's efforts to discredit science and climate research and dismantle scientific institutions in the government," but in a city that's chock-a-block with scientists the turnout was far from overwhelming.
An MRI study published in Nature provided evidence changes in the brains of infants predicted a diagnosis of autism at age 2, but the study also provided more evidence that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. (Forbes)
Findings from a small study suggest that daily vaping increases the risk for heart disease in much the same way that smoking increases risk. (Washington Post)
In Spain, a 64-year-old woman gave birth to twins -- her second full-term pregnancy in the last 6 years. Doctors at Recoletas Hospital in Burgos said the woman underwent in vitro fertilization in the U.S.
A portable backpack made by swyMed of Lexington, Mass., can link patients and doctors "whether they are at home, in an ambulance, or in a hard to reach location" for telemedicine without bounds. (Medgadget)
Janice Boughton, MD, says that conflicts of interest don't "necessarily lead to bad decisions, but that they probably do and that we don't know" -- and that is the real risk. (via KevinMD)
Need yet another take on what will really happen to the Affordable Care Act? Here is the wonkiest analysis yet.
Who would have thought that the late Senator Barry Goldwater's (R-Ariz.) final place in history would be as the eponym for an American Psychiatric Association "rule." (Scientific American via Salon)
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