Life and health

Mikimoto Pearl Island

Mikimoto Pearl Island (ミキモト真珠島) is a museum island in Toba, Mie, Japan, where Kokichi Mikimoto first cultured pearls in 1893; it features the Pearl Museum, Memorial Hall, and daily ama diver demonstrations.

Mikko Taipale

Mikko Taipale is a molecular biology professor at the University of Toronto who studies how proteins fold and localize in cells, including a 2024 map of disease mutations that misplace proteins.

Milademetan

Milademetan (DS-3032b, RAIN-32) is an oral spiro-oxindole MDM2-p53 interaction inhibitor from Daiichi Sankyo licensed to Rain Therapeutics; its phase III MANTRA trial in dedifferentiated liposarcoma failed, and it remains unapproved.

Oct 10, 2026

Milan Hašek

Milan Hašek was a Czech immunologist who co-discovered acquired immunological tolerance in chick embryos in 1953, independently of Peter Medawar, and was omitted from the 1960 Nobel Prize.

Milan Sonka

Milan Sonka is a Czech-born medical image analysis researcher, professor and Battershell Chair holder at the University of Iowa, known for graph-theoretic segmentation of retinal, cardiac, and vascular scans.

MILAN trial

MILAN (NCT05450328) is a multicenter double-blind randomized trial at the Montreal Heart Institute testing inhaled epoprostenol 60 mcg plus milrinone 4 mg versus placebo before cardiopulmonary bypass to prevent difficult bypass weaning in 142 cardiac surgery patients.

Milap C. Nahata

Milap C. Nahata is an American pharmacist-scientist at Ohio State whose research made medications safer and better dosed for children, earning the 2024 Remington Honor Medal.

Milbemectin

Milbemectin, a mixture of milbemycins A3 and A4 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus ssp. aureolacrimosus, is a macrocyclic lactone acaricide and insecticide; EU approval renewed 2025 to 2040.

Mild hyperemesis gravidarum

Mild hyperemesis gravidarum (ICD-11 JA60.0; ICD-10-CM O21.0) is pregnancy vomiting responsive to dietary modification and antiemetics, starting before the end of the 22nd week, distinguished from HG with metabolic disturbance (JA60.1) and managed in community care.

Mild hyperphenylalaninemia

Mild hyperphenylalaninemia (mild HPA), also known as non-PKU hyperphenylalaninemia or MHP, is the mildest form of phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency, an inherited metabolic disorder with blood phenylalanine of 120 to 600 micromol/L.

Sep 29, 2026

Mild hyperthermia

Mild hyperthermia is a cancer treatment that heats tumors to about 39–45 °C, sensitizing cells to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, unlike ablation, which destroys tissue above 50 °C.

Mild intellectual disability

Mild intellectual disability: a developmental disability with IQ below about 70, adaptive behavior deficits, and onset before adulthood; prevalence 0.7–1.3%, often grouped with borderline intellectual functioning (IQ 71–84) as MBID.

Mild neurocognitive disorder

Mild neurocognitive disorder (mild NCD, DSM-5 2013; ICD-11 6D71) is a modest, measurable cognitive decline beyond normal aging, roughly matching mild cognitive impairment, with independence preserved and ten etiologic specifiers.

Mild personality disorder

Mild personality disorder (ICD-11 6D10.0) is the lowest severity level of personality disorder in ICD-11, above personality difficulty, aligned with DSM-5 AMPD level 2 moderate impairment, typically with one trait qualifier.

Mild to moderate pre-eclampsia

Mild to moderate pre-eclampsia (ICD-11 JA24.0), pre-eclampsia without severe features. Managed with surveillance, labetalol or nifedipine, target BP 135/85 mmHg, and birth at 34-37+ weeks; WHO advises induction at term.

MILD trial

MILD (Multicentric Italian Lung Detection) trial, Italian randomized trial begun 2005 comparing annual vs biennial low-dose CT lung cancer screening with no screening in 4,099 heavy smokers; reported 39% lung cancer mortality reduction with prolonged screening.

Mild vision impairment

Mild vision impairment, mildest WHO/ICD-11 grade of distance vision impairment: presenting visual acuity worse than 6/12 to 6/18 (CDC: 20/32 to >20/80) in the better eye, mostly uncorrected refractive error.

Mildew

Mildew is the common name for two unrelated plant diseases, powdery mildew, a true fungus favoring warm dry weather, and downy mildew, a water mold favoring cool wet conditions.

Mildred Cohn

Mildred Cohn (1913–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable isotope tracers and NMR spectroscopy to study enzyme catalysis, winning the National Medal of Science in 1982.

Miles Weinberger

Miles M. Weinberger was an American pediatric allergist and pulmonologist at the University of Iowa whose theophylline dosing research made it the standard childhood asthma treatment.

Miles Wilkinson

Miles Wilkinson is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego whose laboratory has defined the nonsense-mediated RNA decay pathway and identified the Rhox homeobox gene cluster.

Milford Fulop

Milford Fulop was an American nephrologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for research on acid–base disorders, potassium disturbances, and the comas of uncontrolled diabetes.

Miliaria

Miliaria (heat rash, prickly heat, sweat rash) is a common rash from blocked eccrine sweat ducts, with types crystallina, rubra, pustulosa, and profunda classified by duct obstruction depth; common in neonates and hot, humid climates.

Miliary tuberculosis

Miliary tuberculosis, also known as disseminated tuberculosis, is a severe form of tuberculosis in which bacteria spread through the bloodstream to many organs; untreated, it is fatal.

Milichiidae

Milichiidae, jackal or freeloader flies, are a worldwide family of small (1–5 mm) acalyptrate Diptera in Carnoidea, with about 390–430 species, kleptoparasitic and ant-associated behavior, and three subfamilies.

Oct 20, 2026

Milicia

Milicia (Moraceae) is a genus of two dioecious tropical African timber trees, M. excelsa and M. regia, both traded as iroko; durable hardwood, near threatened/vulnerable, constrained by Phytolyma lata psyllid.

Milicia excelsa

Milicia excelsa (iroko, African teak, mvule) is a large dioecious Moraceae tree of tropical Africa, 30–50 m tall, yielding a valuable teak-substitute timber; IUCN Lower Risk/near threatened, heavily logged, plantations hindered by Phytolyma galls.

Milislav Demerec

Milislav Demerec (1895–1966) was an American geneticist, born in Austria-Hungary, who directed the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from 1943 to 1960.

Military Hospitals

Military hospitals treat service members and usually dependents, from ancient rear-tent care to modern MTFs; the US system runs 700+ facilities, nine Defense Health Networks, and field hospitals for 9.5 million beneficiaries.