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The integration of women authorship in ophthalmic research is comparable to that of other medical specialties, but overall women authors are underrepresented when compared with men, according to a study.

The rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, are increasing exponentially, with research presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Summer Meeting reporting an 800% increase between 1970 and 2009 among women aged 18 to 39 years.

Richard Bakst, MD, a board-certified radiation oncologist, was one of 22 physicians inducted into the Society of Honorary Police Surgeons of the City of New York.

ST. LOUIS – Researchers found that students had significantly faster reading rates and total reading time on the same passage on paper compared to an iPad, according to a study presented here at Optometry’s Meeting.

More than 50 million adults in the U.S. were harmed by another person’s alcohol use in 2015, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this video from ASM Microbe, Mark A. Schneegurt, PhD, professor in the department of biological sciences at Wichita State University, discusses his work investigating microbes that can grow and survive on Mars.

ATLANTA — In this video from ASM Microbe, Lito E. Papanicolas, MBBS, infectious disease physician and PhD candidate at Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, Australia, explains that certain aspects of stool processing for fecal microbiota transplantation, or FMT, are likely having a negative impact on beneficial bacteria critical to these transplants.

ATLANTA — In this video, Infectious Disease News Editorial Board member Ellie J.C. Goldstein, MD, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, and director of the R.M. Alden Research Laboratory in Santa Monica, California, highlights notable presentations at this year’s ASM Microbe.

In this video, Ya-Chi Ho, MD, MS, PhD, instructor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-leader of the HIV Cure Scientific Working Group at the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research, reviews the approaches to HIV cure that were discussed at ASM Microbe 2016.