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Molly Joel Coye

Molly Joel Coye is an American physician and health-system innovator, a former state health director in New Jersey and California elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1994.

Montefiore Medical Center

Montefiore Medical Center is a non-profit acute care hospital in the Bronx, New York, and the teaching hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine since 1963.

Montreal General Hospital

The Montreal General Hospital is a bilingual academic hospital in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1821 and now one of the six sites of the McGill University Health Centre.

Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, founded 1804-1805 by John Cunningham Saunders, is the world's oldest eye hospital, now an NHS foundation trust on City Road with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Morgue

Morgue (mortuary): a facility where dead bodies are kept pending identification, autopsy, or burial. From the Paris morgue of 1804; hospital morgues use 4–8 °C cold storage, minimum 4-body capacity, and tiered NPAAC facility levels.

Morris Green

Morris Green (1922–2013) was an American pediatrician and educator who led Indiana University's pediatrics department from 1967 to 1987 and helped create the Bright Futures health guidelines.

Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), founded 1852, is the 1,121-bed flagship teaching hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine, a 10-year U.S. News Honor Roll hospital on the Upper East Side.

Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)

Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto: acute care academic health sciences centre founded 1923, part of Sinai Health, affiliated with the University of Toronto; ranked 2nd in Canada and 27th globally by Newsweek in 2026.

MP-10 trial

MP-10 trial (NCT02739464): randomized multicenter UTMB study of daily 10-minute ergometer exercise added to standard care in patients aged 7-60 with over 30% TBSA burns; 77 enrolled, 2014-2020.

MRIA study

MRIA (NCT05746819), An MRI Ancillary Study of a Malaria Fever RCT, is a completed observational study led by Gretchen Birbeck using brain MRI at 1 and 12 months post recovery to test neuroprotection from aggressive antipyretics in pediatric CNS malaria, enrolling 181 children in Malawi and Zambia.

MS-R trial

MS-R (Right Ventricular Apical Versus True Mid-septal Pacing, NCT02412176) is a randomized pacemaker trial comparing apical with CT-verified true mid-septal lead placement, using LV volume, dyssynchrony, and extracellular matrix endpoints.

MSBS study

MSBS study (NCT02699320): Intestinal Microbial Dysbiosis in Chinese Infants With Short Bowel Syndrome With Different Complications; completed 2016 Xinhua Hospital observational study of microbiota, bile acids, SCFAs, and immune markers in 18 infants plus 7 controls.

MSC-PBC-I/II trial

MSC-PBC-I/II (NCT07795151) is a Beijing 302 Hospital phase I/II trial of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells for UDCA-refractory primary biliary cholangitis: 68 participants, 3+3 dose escalation then blinded placebo-controlled phase II with composite ALP/bilirubin response at week 12.

MTA trial (NCT00000388)

MTA trial (NCT00000388), the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD: NIMH 14-month randomized trial of 579 children comparing medication, behavior therapy, combination, and community care, with 16-year follow-up showing converging outcomes and stimulant-related growth suppression.

Muhimbili National Hospital

Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, is Tanzania's national tertiary referral and teaching hospital under the Ministry of Health, with Upanga and Mloganzila campuses, about 2,000 beds, and a planned USD 468 million rebuild.

Mulago Hospital

Mulago National Referral Hospital, on Mulago Hill in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 1913 by Albert Ruskin Cook, is the country's largest public tertiary and teaching hospital of Makerere University, with about 1,500 official beds.

Multicenter cohort study

A multicenter cohort study is an observational design recruiting and following a cohort at multiple centers under a common protocol, reaching larger samples to detect rare effects.

Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer

The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), founded in 1990, is an international organization advancing supportive cancer care with members in over 80 countries.

Multiphase optimization strategy

The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) is a framework introduced by Linda M. Collins and colleagues in 2005 for building and optimizing multicomponent behavioral and biomedical interventions.

Multiphasic Screening

Multiphasic screening combines multiple laboratory tests in one examination session to detect several diseases at once, usually in groups of people. First named in San Jose, California, 1949; automated by Kaiser Permanente; controlled trials show no mortality benefit.

MultiSETS trial

MultiSETS (Multicenter Schroth Exercise Trial for Scoliosis, NCT01610908) is a University of Alberta randomized trial of Schroth exercises added to standard care in 124 adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis, showing reduced torso asymmetry versus standard care alone.

Municipal Hospitals

Municipal hospitals are hospitals owned and controlled by a city or municipal government, distinct from national, charitable, or private hospitals; Britain's were absorbed into the NHS in 1948.

MUSA study

MUSA (NCT05075642) is an Italian multicenter observational study of initial management of urinary disorders in multiple sclerosis, using UBQ-MS, ABSST, and PVR screening; distinct from a same-named incontinence surgery study.

MUSCLE trial

MUSCLE (Nordic Walking in MUltiple SCLErosis), NCT05385731, is a randomized multicentre trial by Peyré-Tartaruga comparing Nordic walking, free walking, and health education in 60 sedentary adults with multiple sclerosis, with gait-mechanics and quality-of-life outcomes.

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), founded 1950 by Paul Cohen in Rye, NY, is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) voluntary health organization for muscular dystrophy, ALS, and 300+ neuromuscular diseases; distinct from the UK MND Association and the New Zealand MDA.

MUSEUM trial

MUSEUM (NCT03159078) is a phase 3, double-blind randomized trial at the Puerto Rico Trauma Hospital ICU comparing polymyxin B monotherapy versus polymyxin B-carbapenem (imipenem) combination therapy in critically ill trauma patients with multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections; planned enrollment 40, no results posted.

MuSIFe study

MuSIFe (Multidisciplinary Surveillance and Investigation of Febrile Illness in Guinea), NCT06122259, is a prospective observational cohort study of 2,500 febrile patients in four sentinel districts, run by Guinea's CNFERSR with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.

MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak

MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak: 2026 Andes virus (ANDV) cluster aboard a Dutch expedition cruise ship sailing from Ushuaia; 13 cases, 3 deaths, first shipborne ANDV outbreak, declared over 2 July 2026.

Myron Allukian Jr

Myron Allukian Jr. is an American dental public health specialist who was Boston's dental director for 34 years, led water fluoridation in Boston, and served as APHA president.

N-of-1 trial

An N-of-1 trial is a randomized, usually blinded multiple-crossover experiment in a single patient, named by Gordon Guyatt and colleagues in a 1986 New England Journal of Medicine paper.