A new broadly inclusive definition of long COVID from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has been developed with the aim of improving consistency, documentation, and ...

There is a lack of consistency in how 'growing pains' are diagnosed, with researchers finding medical definitions of the condition often vague or even contradictory, including age of onset, the role ...

A medical device is any appliance, apparatus, software, material, or other articles, which may be used in isolation or combination (as defined by the manufacturer) by individuals for a medical purpose ...

What do we mean by standards-of-care? How did these standards evolve? This article attempts to answer these questions and to look at the part played by ethical debate in the development of ...

A medical definition can have profound implications. Take the concept of ‘acute paediatric critical illness’: it may appear straightforward, describing a wide range of sudden, life-threatening health ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. What’s a medical drug? Ask someone on the street and they’re likely to tell you it’s the kind of thing you take when you’re unwell.