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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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Your data could cure you one day

Repositories of patient data hold clues to better treatments. The challenge lies in extracting meaningful information while still safeguarding patient privacy.

  • Aug. 13, 2018
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Reducing the Stress Associated With Electronic Health Records

Physicians cite electronic health records as a leading contributor to burnout. Learn about solutions academic medicine could employ to help prevent that.

  • March 27, 2018
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340B Simplified

Understand everything you need to know about the 340B Drug Pricing Program in less than four minutes.

  • Feb. 20, 2018
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Vigilance Required in the New Age of Cybersecurity

Five ways your organization can protect itself from a cyberattack.

  • Oct. 23, 2017
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Medical Students Learn From Analyzing Their Own Genetic Makeup

Medical schools are introducing the importance of genetics by having students analyze the medical significance of their own genomes.

  • March 28, 2017
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Researchers Race to Find Answers to Stop Zika Virus

Facing a public health emergency, researchers in the academic medicine community have found innovative ways to accelerate Zika virus research.

  • Dec. 5, 2016
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Merging Social Determinants Data into EHRs to Improve Patient Outcomes

Given the growing body of evidence about the social determinants of health, there has been a push to enter social data into electronic health record systems.

  • Sept. 27, 2016