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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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Curriculum Disability MCAT - Medical College Admission Test
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Some students struggle to pay medical school application fees. That’s why the AAMC is expanding eligibility for its Fee Assistance Program

Changes to the program in 2022 will enable more students to qualify for assistance paying for the MCAT® exam, prep materials, and application fees.

  • Jan. 27, 2022
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The Step 1 exam is going pass-fail. Now what?

For years, medical residency programs used Step 1 to help pick candidates. An advisor offers insights on how medical students might deal with the change.

  • Jan. 11, 2022
Katherine Chretien, MD, advises a student through videoconferencing software on her computer
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I am a medical student with significant hearing loss. Here’s what the pandemic has been like for me and others with my disability

Masking, social distancing, and Zoom have made us all safer during the pandemic, but those measures have complicated communication for those with hearing loss.

  • Jan. 6, 2022
Zina Jawadi
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As a non-U.S. citizen, I faced hurdles applying to U.S. medical schools. Now that I’ve made it, I want to help others like me

I started F-1 Doctors to help international students like me find mentorship when applying to U.S. medical schools.

  • July 29, 2021
Azan Zahir Virji, MPH
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For providers with PTSD, the trauma of COVID-19 isn’t over

They watched patients and colleagues sicken and die for months. Now, many front-line providers are struggling with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • June 29, 2021
Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, MD, now a trauma surgeon at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, saw a flood of deaths during the pandemic and has suffered symptoms of PTSD.
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Medical schools overhaul curricula to fight inequities

A growing number of medical school leaders say that isolated mentions of health inequities are not enough. Instead, social drivers must be front and center.

  • May 25, 2021
A student holds a sign that says "Racism is a public health crisis"
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Doctors with long COVID-19 share their struggles to heal

Crushing exhaustion, trouble breathing, and more. Doctors describe the disturbing effects of long COVID on their lives and how they're managing to move forward.

  • May 4, 2021
Sunita Sharma, MD, a pulmonologist at UC Health in Aurora, Colorado, with a patient.
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The terrible toll of COVID-19 on people with intellectual disabilities

Patients with intellectual disabilities are six times more likely to die from COVID-19 than other people. An expert weighs in on how we must improve their care.

  • April 20, 2021
Jane Tobias, DNP, RN, MSN, gives a patient a COVID-19 vaccine at an April 3 event in Philadelphia that Jefferson Health designed to meet the needs of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Homebound, but not hopeless

Many frail and elderly people can’t get out to get a COVID-19 vaccine. So teaching hospitals are giving shots to patients right in their own homes.

  • April 6, 2021
Gail and Robert Pursel of Millville, Pennsylvania, receive their COVID-19 vaccines, thanks to Geisinger’s in-home health care service.
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What every doctor needs to know about telemedicine

Telemedicine soared during the pandemic, and experts say it’s here to stay. How can providers and future physicians prepare to provide quality care from afar?

  • March 24, 2021
Kimberly Noel, MD, MPH, talks to a patient through a computer in her office