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Mutual need, mutual gain: Academic health systems work to support rural hospitals

As rural health facilities struggle to survive, they get staff training, residency placements, and expert consultations from university hospitals.

  • Nov. 20, 2025
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Think you’re too old for medical school? Think again

Not everyone enters medical school right after college. Here, students over the age of 30 share the benefits and challenges of being older than their peers.

  • Nov. 18, 2025
Rima Habre, ScD, Gary Miller, PhD, and Chirag Patel, PhD, who are leading the Network for Exposomics in the United States, speak at the Exposome Moonshot Forum in May, 2025.
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An estimated 90% of diseases have environmental triggers. These researchers want to build a framework for prevention

Research into the exposome, a counterpart to the genome, gains momentum.

  • Nov. 12, 2025
Infectious disease physician Adam Ratner, MD, MPH, offers his insights on combating measles and other communicable diseases at Learn Serve Lead 2025.
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Outbreaks of measles are fueled by outbreaks of mistrust

The key to understanding and fighting the forces that fuel measles and other viral outbreaks is better communication with families, says infectious disease phys

  • Nov. 4, 2025

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The potential and pitfalls of fecal transplants

Fecal microbiota transplantation, or FMT, has emerged as an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

  • Sept. 6, 2019
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We all make diagnostic errors

Recognizing how your brain works — and better understanding the situations when you’re likely to slip up — can help you make fewer mistakes.

  • Sept. 3, 2019
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Treating mental illness in the ED

Teaching hospitals are figuring out how to better care for mental health patients — and keep them comfortable while they wait for long-term services.

  • Sept. 3, 2019
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Making care safer for sick kids at home

Every day, millions of parents measure medications, assess symptoms, or even care for central lines for their sick or disabled children at home.

  • Aug. 27, 2019
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Can we kill superbugs before they kill us?

More than 10 million people a year could die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, warns a United Nations report.

  • Aug. 27, 2019
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Oh, the places you’ll go with an MD (and more)

Today’s physicians are increasingly bringing their medical expertise to a range of settings that aren’t strictly clinical.

  • Aug. 23, 2019
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Hospitals on shaky ground: Meeting the challenge of seismic safety

For teaching hospitals racing to meet seismic safety regulations in 2020 and 2030, it was a reminder that it’s if “The Big One” will strike, but when.

  • Aug. 20, 2019
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The healing power of poetry

Poetry beats like a heart, soothes emotional wounds, and builds life-giving connections.

  • Aug. 16, 2019
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When physicians are traumatized

Nearly 80% of doctors have experienced a distressing patient event in the last year, and many go on to suffer from depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

  • Aug. 13, 2019
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Should the USMLE be pass/fail?

USMLE Step 1 scores get far more weight than they deserve in the residency selection process, experts say, and that’s harming students.

  • Aug. 13, 2019
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