Cases and games for doctors

Interpret traces, explore images and follow cases from published data. Educational material, with sources and limitations explained in each project.

Practise reading clinical cases

Traces and images from projects built on published medical records.

The brain seen by ultrasound: how far the tumour is from where neuronavigation shows it

Real ultrasound volumes from glioma operations, set beside the MRI the navigation screen shows: in 22 patients, the same anatomical landmark appears on the two images 3.5 mm apart on average for the patient in the middle of the group, and up to 19.7 mm. Move the probe, decide where you would stop the resection, then compare with the MRI taken in theatre.

Check the medical evidence

See how studies continue to be cited after retraction, and what registries record about trials and medicines.

Retracted medical studies that are still being cited: 2,731 clinical studies, 11,142 citations after retraction

Since 1980, journals have retracted 2,731 papers classed as clinical studies, almost all on patients. Later papers cited them 11,142 times at least a year after the retraction, 1,528 of them in systematic reviews, meta-analyses and guidelines. Look up a condition, medicine or supplement, read the sentences in later guidelines and reviews that still lean on a retracted study, and follow the case of the Japanese anaesthetist Yoshitaka Fujii: a committee found fabricated data in 172 of 212 of his papers. In English and Romanian.

Five antibiotics tracked, hospital by hospital

Which antibiotics did Romania’s public hospitals buy in 2025, and what infection rates did they report? The analysis tracks five names and may include combination products or multi-drug purchases; it does not cover WHO’s full Reserve category.

Explore staffing and access to care

Maps and registers about staffing, hospitals and access to care in Romania.

Atlas of Medical Deserts

Doctors, family doctors, dentists, pharmacies and hospital beds per 10,000 residents, for each of Romania's 3,181 localities, today and twenty years ago. Doctors per 10,000 residents rose from 21.2 in 2004 to 34.0 in 2024, but towns have 56.4 and communes only 5.8; 315 localities lost their last doctor, and 566 have never had a pharmacy or a hospital.

Resident posts in your town’s hospital, 2016–2026

Every list of resident posts from the Ministry of Health, 2016 to 2026, on a map, with the day each post was taken in 2020–2025. A post is an open-ended employment contract with the unit that advertises it; in 2021–2025, 49% of posts were taken after allocation day one, against 24% of places. Look up a county, town or specialty.

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