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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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Climate change hurts women more

Extreme weather is linked to pregnancy complications, increased violence, and inescapable exposure to pollution and heat.

  • June 6, 2024
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Medical schools work to end student mistreatment

From public humiliation to sexist remarks, medical trainees often experience faculty mistreatment. Here’s how institutions are working to stop bad behaviors.

  • June 4, 2024
A pediatrician interacts with a baby at a Mother’s Day event
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Could giving low-income patients cash improve their health?

Guaranteed income programs have been successful in low-income countries. Now, researchers hope to test their effectiveness in the U.S.

  • May 30, 2024

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Basic Science Unconscious Bias
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The rising health threats of a hot planet

On the one-year anniversary of the UN’s report on climate change, AAMCNews explores the impact of a warming Earth on health. This is the first in a series.

  • Oct. 8, 2019
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Take this medicine, and tell me about a day in your life

If we can’t understand the circumstances of our patients’ lives, including the social inequities they face, we cannot effectively treat them.

  • Sept. 25, 2019
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Fighting fake medical news

Medical misinformation is responsible for the largest measles outbreak in a quarter century. What is academic medicine doing to combat it?

  • May 7, 2019
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Raising the Bar: Helping Faculty Advance Learning with MedEdPORTAL

With its high-quality, peer-reviewed curricula, MedEdPORTAL® can support educators training the next generation of physicians and other health professionals.

  • April 18, 2017
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Celebrating Ignorance and Failure

Ignorance and failure are a critical component of success in scientific discovery, according to scientist and writer Stuart Firestein, PhD.

  • Sept. 29, 2016
Front covers of: Failure: Why Science Is So Successful and Ignorance: How it Drives Science