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Microplastics are inside us all. What does that mean for our health?

Tiny plastic particles have been found throughout the human body, but researchers say they’re just starting to understand the impact.

  • June 27, 2024
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‘Not all cancer needs to be cured’: Five ways that prostate cancer treatments have…

As prostate cancer cases rise, newer drugs, genetic testing, and clearer imaging give patients more options, reduce side effects, and save time.

  • June 25, 2024
In transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), an external device is used to drive electromagnetic pulses through the skull to improve mood.
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The growing field of neurotherapeutics offers psychiatric patients new hope

Brain procedures help patients with treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions. But providers still grapple with ethical questions and the history of lobotomies

  • June 20, 2024
Annie’s Place at Parkland Health in Dallas, Texas, offers no-cost childcare for parents to attend medical appointments.
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Can providing childcare at hospitals improve health?

Patients miss appointments — and health care workers miss work — because there’s no one to watch the kids. New programs test how on-site childcare might help.

  • June 12, 2024

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Med school after 40

Older medical students have different motivations, advantages, and challenges than their younger classmates. They discuss why and how they took the challenges.

  • Feb. 28, 2020
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Ending gender harassment in medicine

Women medical students now outnumber men, yet they still face significant levels of gender harassment, contributing to burnout and dissatisfaction.

  • Feb. 18, 2020
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Healing the very youngest healers

A growing number of medical schools and teaching hospitals are developing programs to identify and help at-risk trainees.

  • Jan. 21, 2020
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More women than men are enrolled in medical school

New AAMC data show that women now represent a majority of medical school students, while underrepresented groups continue modest growth.

  • Dec. 9, 2019
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Climate change threatens firefighters and farmworkers. And that’s only the beginning.

Some workers are already hit by climate change. Occupational and environmental health experts are working to protect them and train future physicians.

  • Oct. 17, 2019
Firefighters fighting a wildfire
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Hospitals race to save patients — and the planet

The global health care industry is responsible for two gigatons of carbon dioxide each year,

  • Oct. 15, 2019
Two doctors walk down a hospital hallway lined with plants.
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Climate change in the curriculum

As the impacts of climate change on health become more prominent, a growing number of

  • Oct. 10, 2019
An opened old big book in library full with textbook, stack piles of text. On top of the big old book is a small tree.
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The Harvard admissions case: 5 takeaways for medical schools

While a federal district court judge upheld the school’s race-conscious admissions policies, medical schools would be wise to revisit their own.

  • Oct. 4, 2019
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A summer of opportunity for future health professionals

The Summer Health Professions Education Program celebrates 30 years of preparing students who are underrepresented in the health professions.

  • Aug. 2, 2019
students in surgery at SHPEP University of Iowa
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Doing better for disadvantaged students

Learn Serve Lead 2019: The AAMC Annual Meeting speaker and sociologist Anthony Jack, PhD, studies the challenges that come with being disadvantaged.

  • July 30, 2019
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