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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
Pregnant woman in bed with a fan because of the heat wave
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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
woman with scrubs sitting on the floor
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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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Clinical Science Ethnicity
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WATCH: How the pandemic has impacted medical students now and in the future

Medical students share how the pandemic has shaped their training experiences and their futures as physicians.

  • March 3, 2022
Russyan Mark Mabeza, a student getting his MD-MPH at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, poses for a photo with some fellow medical students.
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The future of CRISPR is now

CRISPR is revolutionizing experimental therapies, but where should society draw the line?

  • Dec. 2, 2021
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex and cells, illustration. The CRISPR-Cas9 protein (blue and pink) is used in genome engineering to cut DNA and uses a guide RNA sequence (orange) to cut DNA (purple) at a complementary cleavage site.
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8 medical advances you may have missed during COVID-19

From a possible cure for sickle cell disease to portable MRIs, check out medical breakthroughs that happened while the pandemic absorbed the world’s attention.

  • Nov. 17, 2021
A medicine doctor is analyzing coronavirus covid-19 via technology virtual reality interactive
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Making science serve humanity: Jennifer Doudna, PhD, says CRISPR gene-editing technology should be accessible to all

Jennifer Doudna, PhD, discusses her work on CRISPR gene editing, diversity in science, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Nov. 8, 2021
Larry Jameson and Jennifer Doudna appear on a laptop screen
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Tech can set you free: How computer power can fuel creativity and human connection in medicine

A research dean says the tech revolution provides tools to help researchers and clinicians use their problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

  • Aug. 10, 2021
Antony Rosen, MBChB, MS, in his lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Canada took a risk delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses. Now, its vaccination campaign is one of the best in the world

Canada’s vaccination campaign got off to a slow start, but using the unconventional “first doses first” strategy seems to be working.

  • July 15, 2021
Someone holds a COVID-19 vaccine in their gloved hand in front of the Canadian flag
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We can’t defeat COVID-19 without vaccinating children. There aren't even any kids' clinical trials yet

Doctors and researchers warn that the United States must start now to develop children’s vaccines to protect everyone and for schools to open safely next fall.

  • Oct. 19, 2020
A child receives a vaccine from a doctor
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Consensus Guidance on Face Coverings

The AAMC offers guidance on wearing face coverings to slow the spread of COVID-19.

  • Aug. 12, 2020
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Academic labs are opening back up. Still, research isn’t exactly back to normal

Researchers face health screenings, lab capacity limits, and gradual resumption of experiments as medical schools open labs they closed to keep out COVID-19.

  • July 20, 2020
A researcher in a lab at Emory University works under new rules on social distancing and sanitation
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Labs put research on ice

Pandemic raises unprecedented questions: What research continues and what stops? What science is lost? Who will pay to resume experiments?

  • April 21, 2020
A lab technician pulls samples out of a freezer