Human health and medicine

Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Miami Project to Cure Paralysis: spinal cord injury research center at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, founded 1985 by Barth Green and Nick Buoniconti after Marc Buoniconti's injury; Buoniconti Fund has raised over $550 million; housed in Lois Pope LIFE Center; hypothermia and Schwann cell trials.

Oct 15, 2026

Mianserin

Mianserin is a tetracyclic antidepressant synthesized in 1966 by Organon in the Netherlands, used for depression and anxiety-related depression, and never approved by the FDA.

MIBG & SSTR NB study

MIBG & SSTR NB (NCT07064746) is a prospective observational Nanjing First Hospital trial comparing 123I-MIBG SPECT/CT with 68Ga-DOTA-TATE SSTR PET for diagnosing and staging neuroblastoma in 150 Chinese children aged 0-18.

MIBG scintigraphy

MIBG scintigraphy is a nuclear medicine scan using radioiodinated MIBG, a norepinephrine analog, to image the heart's sympathetic innervation and adrenergic tumors like pheochromocytoma and neuroblastoma, first reported in 1981.

Michael A. Mussallem

Michael A. Mussallem is an American medical-device engineer who served as founding chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences from 2000 to 2023, pioneering transcatheter heart valve replacement used in over one million patients.

Michael Baden

Michael Baden (born 1934) is an American forensic pathologist, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, chairman of the JFK assassinations Forensic Pathology Panel, HBO Autopsy host, and expert in cases including Simpson, Brown, and Epstein.

Michael Colgan (nutritionist)

Michael Colgan (born c. 1938) is an American research scientist, author of Optimum Sports Nutrition, and founder of the 1983 Colgan Institute, known for individualized megadose supplementation for athletes and for unpublished athlete studies criticized by mainstream nutritionists.

Michael DeBakey

Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), born Michel Dabaghi, American cardiovascular surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine; invented the roller pump for heart-lung machines, pioneered bypass and aneurysm surgery, Dacron grafts, and MASH units, and won the Lasker Award, Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal.

Michael Fiore

Michael Fiore is an American physician and tobacco researcher at the University of Wisconsin who founded UW-CTRI in 1992 and chaired national guidelines for treating tobacco dependence.

Michael Greger

Michael Greger is an American physician and nutrition advocate who founded the nonprofit NutritionFacts.org and wrote How Not to Die, which sold over a million copies.

Michael Katz (American pediatrician)

Michael Katz is an American pediatrician and public-health physician who chaired Columbia University's Department of Pediatrics for 16 years and later served the March of Dimes Foundation.

Michael L. Callaham

Michael L. Callaham is an American emergency physician at UCSF, founding chair of its emergency medicine department and longtime editor-in-chief of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Michael L. Cleary

Michael L. Cleary is a Stanford University School of Medicine pathologist known for discovering genes damaged by chromosomal translocations in human leukemias, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Michael L. LeFevre

Michael L. LeFevre is an American family physician at the University of Missouri School of Medicine who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 2014.

Michael Lerner (public health leader)

Michael Lerner (born 1943) is an American public health leader and political scientist, co-founder and president of Commonweal in Bolinas, California, and a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.

Michael Yeadon

Michael Yeadon, retired British pharmacologist, former Pfizer VP and chief scientific officer of allergy and respiratory research (left 2011), Ziarco founder, known for the 2020 Wodarg-Yeadon syncytin-1 vaccine-infertility petition and later COVID-19 denial claims, widely fact-checked.

Sep 21, 2026

Michael Α. Gatzoulis

Michael A. Gatzoulis (Μιχαήλ Α. Γατζούλης) is a Greek-born cardiologist and professor at Imperial College London, known for research on sudden-death risk in repaired tetralogy of Fallot.

Michel Haïssaguerre

Michel Haïssaguerre, French cardiologist born 1955 in Bayonne; Bordeaux electrophysiologist who discovered pulmonary vein triggers of atrial fibrillation, pioneered pulmonary vein isolation, and identified Purkinje triggers of ventricular fibrillation.

Michelle H. Biros

Michelle H. Biros is an American emergency physician and researcher at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009 for creating the exception-from-informed-consent rule for emergency research.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), created by Executive Order 2015-4 effective April 10, 2015 by merging the departments of Community Health and Human Services; Michigan's largest state agency, administering Medicaid, public health, child welfare, and public assistance in all 83 counties.

Michigan Medicine

Michigan Medicine is the University of Michigan's academic medical center in Ann Arbor, formerly the University of Michigan Health System (renamed 2017). It includes U-M Health, the Medical School, and Michigan Health Corporation; medical school founded 1850, first university-owned hospital 1869.

Michio Kushi

Michio Kushi (久司道夫, 1926–2014), Japanese-born educator and student of George Ohsawa who popularized macrobiotics in America, founding the Kushi Institute, East West Journal, and Erewhon with his wife Aveline.

Mickey S. Eisenberg

Mickey S. Eisenberg is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, a University of Washington professor emeritus who shaped Seattle/King County's leading cardiac arrest response system.

Miconazole

Miconazole, an imidazole antifungal synthesized by Janssen in 1969, treats candidiasis and dermatophyte infections topically; distinct from other azoles by dual ergosterol and peroxidase inhibition, its intravenous form was withdrawn for vehicle toxicity.

Micro syndrome

Micro syndrome, formally Warburg micro syndrome (WARBM), is a rare autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental disorder marked by congenital cataracts, microcephaly, severe intellectual disability, and progressive spasticity, caused by RAB18 pathway deficiency.

Micro-CT imaging

Micro-CT imaging, or microcomputed tomography, is an X-ray computed tomography technique producing quantitative 3D images of small specimens such as bone, soft tissue, and biomaterials, used mainly in preclinical research.

Micro-ultrasound imaging

Micro-ultrasound imaging is a high-frequency ultrasound technique that images living tissue at resolutions near histology's scale, resolving structures as small as 70 µm and used chiefly to detect prostate tumors.

Microalbuminuria

Microalbuminuria: urinary albumin excretion of 20–200 μg/min or 30–300 mg/24 h, below dipstick detection; term coined 1981 (Viberti, Parving, Svendsen), now replaced by KDIGO A2 moderately increased albuminuria (ACR 30–300 mg/g), a kidney and cardiovascular risk marker in diabetes.

Microangiography

Microangiography is an X-ray imaging technique that visualizes very small blood vessels, typically arterioles of 20 to 200 µm, using radiopaque contrast agents and high-resolution detection.