Richard Franki is the associate editor who writes and creates graphs. He started with the company in 1987, when it was known as the International Medical News Group. In his years as a journalist, Richard has worked for Cap Cities/ABC, Disney, Harcourt, Elsevier, Quadrant, Frontline, and Internet Brands. In the 1990s, he was a contributor to the ill-fated Indications column, predecessor of Livin' on the MDedge.
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The scents-less life and the speaking mummy
Plus, does his beard make Santa feel more confident and attractive?
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Zika virus: Birth defects rose fourfold in U.S. hardest-hit areas
U.S. jurisdictions without local transmission of the virus saw no increase in infants born with brain abnormalities and/or microcephaly or with...
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Infant deaths from birth defects decline, but some disparities widen
Gap between infants born to Hispanic and white mothers increased from 2003 to 2017.
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Suicide rate higher than average for female clinicians
Male health care practitioners are less likely than all working-age men to die by suicide.
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The age of maximum misery, and why Marcus Welby was gray
And grab your buzzers, contestants: It’s time to play “Good news IS bad news!”
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Sleep apnea’s got your tongue, and singin’ in the kerosene rain
Plus, unlike Dunaway and Beatty, we have the correct winners of this year’s invention Oscars.
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Oral lichen planus prevalence estimates go global
New meta-analysis comes with a large caveat about “high heterogeneity of the included studies.”
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Invasion of the body-snatcher DNA, and pediatric ‘La Niña’s revenge’
Plus, find out what America’s been putting into the reporting orifice of our national injury database.
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Flu records most active December since 2003
The CDC estimates that 6.4 million flu illnesses and 55,000 hospitalizations have occurred so far this season.
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Vermont tops America’s Health Rankings for 2019
Mississippi wins/loses its annual battle for the bottom with Louisiana.
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Early increase in flu activity shows no signs of slowing
Outpatients visits are already higher than at any time last season, and the peak occurs most often in February.
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HealthCare.gov enrollment ends with unexpected extension
Trump administration brings stability to “what remains a failed experiment,” the CMS administrator said.
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EVALI readmissions and deaths prompt guideline change
Approximately one in seven deaths from vaping-related lung injuries have occurred after discharge.