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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
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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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CPD - Continuing Professional Development Immigration Opioid Crisis
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Training Future Physicians to Address Opioid Crisis

More than 2 million people abuse opioids, yet only 5,500 physicians are trained in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine.

  • Sept. 19, 2017
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Bringing Medical Help to Rural Areas Overwhelmed by Opioid Abuse

Medical schools and teaching hospitals are finding innovative ways to help small-town physicians address the growing opioid crisis in rural areas.

  • June 27, 2017
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Using CME as an “Engine of Transformation”

Physicians and other providers are addressing patient safety and quality improvement challenges through innovative continuing medical education programs.

  • April 11, 2017
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Stemming the Opioid Epidemic

As opioid-related deaths rise nationwide, the medical community is getting the word out to physicians about the dangers of overprescribing painkillers.

  • Feb. 20, 2017
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Executive Order on Immigration Threatens Our Nation’s Health Security

Raising barriers that keep out physicians, scientists, and researchers from other countries would compromise health care in our nation.

  • Feb. 9, 2017
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Refugee Health Clinics Help New Arrivals, Provide Training Ground for Students and Residents

Several medical schools and teaching hospitals have reached out to help refugees who arrived with health needs but limited options for care.

  • Jan. 30, 2017
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Medical Schools Confront Opioid Crisis with Greater Focus on Pain, Addiction Education

Medical schools nationwide are strengthening curricula to help students confront the opioid epidemic and care for patients in chronic pain.

  • Sept. 29, 2016
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