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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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75-year Partnership Between Veterans Affairs, Academic Medicine Ensures Better Access to Care for Veterans

AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, issued the following statement in recognition of the 75th anniversary of academic affiliations with the VA

  • Jan. 29, 2021
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COVID-19 vaccines will be critical to ending the pandemic. In the meantime, we can’t afford to slow our search for treatments

A researcher is searching for COVID-19 treatments and sees hope in existing drugs. Here’s why his quest is so personal and what he says must happen next.

  • Jan. 27, 2021
In 2014, David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, uncovered a potential treatment for his own deadly disease. Now he's on a mission to find one for COVID-19.
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Doctors forge ahead to allay fears about COVID-19 vaccines

Academic medical centers turn to community partners, trusted minority leaders, and media platforms to explain the science to hesitant racial and ethnic groups.

  • Jan. 21, 2021
Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, president and dean of Morehead School of Medicine, and medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, celebrate their COVID-19 inoculations with Elmo, who has been deployed to help answer children’s questions about the vaccines.
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AAMC Statement on President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 Relief Proposal

The AAMC issued a statement applauding the incoming Biden administration on the proposed American Rescue Plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Jan. 15, 2021
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Feeding future doctors: Universities work to alleviate food insecurity among medical students

Data on food insecurity among medical students is sparse, but researchers think it’s a growing concern amid the pandemic. Schools are working to help.

  • Jan. 14, 2021
People stock the shelves of a campus food pantry at the University of Toledo in Ohio
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Our moment to heal health care

COVID-19 has changed academic medicine forever; it’s up to us to make it better than before.

  • Jan. 12, 2021
Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA, chair of the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, says we can leverage the positive changes from the pandemic to improve academic medicine in the coming years.
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As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, medical students help with inoculations

As vaccine efforts launch, medical students have stepped in to administer shots and fill other vital vaccination needs. It's an experience they’ll never forget.

  • Jan. 7, 2021
Third-year Albany Medical College student Niki Wadhwa administers the COVID-19 vaccine to an intensive care unit staff member at Albany Med on one of the first days of vaccination.
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Top 10 AAMCNews stories of 2020

The pandemic dominated headlines, but it wasn’t the only topic that grabbed our readers’ attention. Here are the 10 most-read news stories of 2020.

  • Dec. 30, 2020
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Miracles, mysteries, and mayhem: Medicine at the movies

Curious how “frozen” patients came alive, why one doctor wore rubber noses, how a Black lab assistant changed cardiology, and more? Watch these medical movies.

  • Dec. 29, 2020
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Why I rolled up my sleeve for the vaccine — and why you should too

The science behind the COVID-19 vaccines is sound, but institutions must address skepticism among communities scarred by histories of medical duplicity.

  • Dec. 23, 2020
Taison Bell, MD, gets one of the first Pfizer coronavirus vaccinations at UVA Health on Dec. 15.