MedPage Today

MedPage Today is a web-based medical news service provider which caters recent clinical news from relevant domain, scientific conference coverage, etc., primarily for medical and health professionals. 
History.
The news service MedPage Today was funded by Robert S. Stern in March 2005. In January 2010, the organization was provided approval for offering American Academy of Family Physicians-accredited CME credits in collaboration with the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The organization is based in New York City.
In December 2010, the organization was acquired by Everyday Health. In July 2011, MedPage Today announced collaboration with American Heart Association for providing specialized newsletter services related to cardiovascular news for the concerned professional. The service was named "Cardiovascular Daily". In June 2017, MedPage Today started to collaborate with Endocrine society to commence a separate reading room in the specialized niche.
The news service has been awarded Platinum eHealthcare Leadership Award multiple times in different categories.
In News.
Rising case of amputation.
During October 2017, Cheryl Clark of MedPage Today wrote an independent statistical and clinical analysis on the rise of case of amputation for the patients suffering from diabetes from 2013 onwards. This analysis invited mixed receptions from the different parts of the medical profession.
Investigations of opioid painkillers.
During 2011 and 2012, MedPage Today and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel jointly carried out an investigation on the 'questionable financial relationships' between the pharmaceutical companies which commercially produce narcotic painkillers and numerous nonprofit organizations who persistently advocate for the pain treatment. The investigation included the special report where it was claimed that UW Pain & Policy Studies Group (a University of Wisconsin-Madison based organization of medical professionals) received undisclosed amount of $2.5 million from drug manufacturers to advocate and promote the usage and prescription of opioid based drugs. The investigation was further extended by the U.S. Senate Committee on its merit. Endorsing the findings of the journalistic investigation the chairman of the US Senate Committee Max Baucus remarked "It is clear that the United States is suffering from an epidemic of accidental deaths and addiction resulting from increased use of powerful narcotic painkillers". While the committee also described the situation of pervasive practice of prescribing opioid painkillers as an "epidemic", the focus of the discussion was the drug OxyContin, manufactured by Purdue Pharma.
During 2015, MedPage Today and "The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel" jointly in their investigative report mentioned the troubled history of approval of Opana ER as done by FDA and its consequent pervasive abuse. Triggered by the report and its consequent aftermath, FDA finally decided to remove the opioid painkiller from the market for the second time during June 2017 where the same drug was removed from the market in 1979 followed by the alarming abuse during 1960 and 1970.
Dinner table story.
In November 2017, "MedPage Today" published a critical report on the insurance machinery and its way of functioning which was referred as "dinner table stories" by others. The report fueled controversy and its reception was mixed; some regarded it as useful for exposing the unethical practices carried out by the insurance officials, while others raising questions of factual accuracy and criticized the depiction of the preauthorization process.
Suicide cases.
MedPage Today is known for carrying out series of analysis on suicide cases, instances, rates etc. In September 2018, "MedPage Today" published a report blaming the medicine professionals including physicians and their "lack of clinical training" as the reason for rising rate of suicide in the United States. The loci of the report was to fix the accountability of the suicides on the physicians and the rising rate of suicide was blamed to be a result of the failure of the physicians in general. The report invited severe criticism from physicians and the hypothesis in the report was rejected by most of the medical professionals.