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Interest is booming in sports medicine and interventional cardiology, while fewer doctors are specializing in orthopedic surgery and radiology. The number of women doctors continues to grow and they are most apt to focus their practice on children, women, and families, while men are more likely to become surgeons. Those are among the findings in the AAMC's 2022 Physician Specialty Data Report , which highlights the numbers of physicians, residents, and fellows among the 48 largest specialties in 2021. For the first time since its inception in 2008, the biennial report presents data on the race and ethnicity of active physicians — showing, for example, that Asian doctors are especially likely to focus on nephrology, Hispanic doctors (regardless of race) on geriatric medicine, Black doctors on obstetrics and gynecology, and Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Alaska natives on pain management. Here are some notable trends revealed by the 2021 data, which covers about 950,0...

John Hinton Annie Brown Kennedy, the first Black woman to serve in the N.C. General Assembly and a prominent local attorney, died Tuesday of natural causes at her Winston-Salem home, a family member said. Kennedy was 98. "She was a wonderful mother," said Harvey Kennedy, one of her sons. "She was a trailblazer." Harold Kennedy pointed to his mother's legislative career and other achievements. Annie Kennedy was the second African American female attorney in North Carolina and the second female attorney to practice law in Forsyth County, Harold Kennedy said. A native of Atlanta, Annie Brown Kennedy received a bachelor's degree in economics from Spelman College and a law degree from Howard University School of Law, according to her biography. In 1954, Annie Kennedy passed the N.C. Bar Examination, and she began practicing la...

Special Contributors   Carey Hemmelgarn, DVM DACVECC is a board-certified emergency and critical care clinician who currently practices in the New York/New Jersey greater metropolitan area. She received her veterinary degree from Washington State University, but moved to the east coast to complete her internship before graduation. Dr. Hemmelgarn spent three years in a residency focused on small animal emergency and critical care, achieving board certification in Emergency and Critical Care in 2013. Dr. Hemmelgarn's professional interests include trauma cases and blood disorders.    Anthony Gonzalez, DVM DACVECC is a graduate of Cornell University and received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tuskegee University. Following an internship, he completed a residency in Emergency & Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gonzalez worked in a busy specialty-emergency hospital in Los Angeles before joining Cornell Veteri...

With so many different types of dementia, symptoms can vary from person to person. The first sign of trouble could be anything from difficulty with daily tasks like driving to an increase in financial problems. The wide range of potential precursors for dementia often make it hard to pinpoint a diagnosis—but one body part may provide some foresight into the future: your nose. Dung Trinh , MD, an internal medicine specialist and founder of the Healthy Brain Clinic, tells Best Life that when it comes to dementia, our sense of smell might be one of the first things affected. "Knowing what to look for when it comes to changes in smell can provide important clues that may be useful for diagnosing dementia," he explains. Read on for five signs of dementia that Trinh and other experts say your nose might detect first. READ THIS NEXT: Scientists Just Found a Surprising Connection Between Grocery Shopping and Dementi...

Ambulatory Surgical Centre Market will value USD 125.7 billion by 2030 : GreyViews Pune India, Jan. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The market has been studied for the below mentioned-segmentation and regional analysis for North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East and Africa. These are the key regions where the ambulatory surgical center market is operating and is predicted to expand soon. The manufacturers and suppliers involved in the ambulatory surgical center market are present across various countries in the above-mentioned regions. Get Sample Copy of This Report @ https://greyviews.com/reports/ambulatory-surgical-centre-market/393/request-sample The report provides a detailed understanding of the market segments which have been formed by combining different prospects such as the type, application, and region. Apart from this, the key driving factors, restraints...

When leaders in Bakersfield's medical community discuss the issues they face in 2023 and beyond, it's clear that a continuing shortage of doctors and other medical professionals is at or near the top of the list. Daniel Wolcott, former president of Adventist Health's Kern County network, in a speech he made last summer, described Bakersfield as a community of abundance that also suffers from scarcity.

Exposure to natural environments, such as urban green spaces, parks, and community gardens may be beneficial to an individual's health, according to a study that found frequent visits to green spaces reduced use of prescription drugs for asthma, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and high blood pressure. The results of this cross-sectional observational study were published in the journal, Occupational & Environmental Medicine. "In this cross-sectional study in the Helsinki capital region of Finland, a higher frequency of green space visits was associated with a lower frequency of psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication use, and the association was not dependent on SES," wrote the researchers. The data for this study came from the Helsinki Capital Region Environmental Health Survey in 2015-2016, which includes 16 000 randomly selected individuals ages 25 and older living in cities that make up the largest urban area in Finland: Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa...