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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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They served on the COVID-19 front lines. Now these emergency medicine doctors can't find jobs.

Usually, emergency medicine residents fend off recruiters. This year, they’re barely getting calls back. Here's how COVID-19 has upended EM job prospects.

  • Feb. 25, 2021
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Nation’s physician workforce evolves: more women, a bit older, and toward different specialties

Female doctors remain concentrated in family and child specialties, while sports medicine is among specialties that are growing, says a data report by the AAMC.

  • Feb. 2, 2021
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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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America’s medical residents, by the numbers

The 2020 Report on Residents looks at specialties by gender, changes in specialty preferences through medical school, and new doctors serving in needy areas.

  • Jan. 5, 2021
A group of doctors in masks and scrubs
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Doctors forgo mental health care during pandemic over concerns about licensing, stigma

The pandemic is threatening the emotional well-being of thousands of providers. But many don’t get treatment for fear of the effect on their careers.

  • Dec. 10, 2020
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I’m a medical student tracking the U.S. response to COVID-19 for the WHO. Here’s what I’ve learned.

I’m a medical student tracking the U.S. response to COVID-19 for the WHO and it has taught me the importance of health policy research.

  • Dec. 1, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) emblem is displayed on its headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is collecting information on individual countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic since spring 2020.
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Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, reflects on the power of our shared humanity

Vivek Murthy, MD, shares his insights on how breaking down silos and embracing commonality can build stronger, healthier communities.

  • Nov. 18, 2020
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, recipient of the 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, speaks at Learn Serve Lead 2020.
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Curing health care of racism: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, call on institutions to foster change

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, renowned voices in antiracism, call for institutional antiracism.

  • Nov. 17, 2020
Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, investigative journalist, speak at Learn Serve Lead 2020 on November 16.
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How COVID-19 threatens the careers of women in medicine

Even before the pandemic, women in medicine earned less, did more at home, and lagged in promotions compared to men. Now it further threatens their careers.

  • Nov. 12, 2020
A group of diverse women doctors in masks
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A bioethicist’s personal opioid nightmare

After receiving opioids, Travis Rieder, PhD, was shocked to find how little doctors knew about managing them. He shares his journey and how we can spare others.

  • Oct. 29, 2020
Travis Rieder, PhD, rides his motorcycle at a racetrack in 2014. A few years later, he suffered a devastating crash and dependence on opioids.