Washington University has stopped using cats in pediatric life support training at its medical school following years of complaints from the animal rights group PETA."PETA is thrilled that (the university) ...
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By Oleg Pavlov, Ph.D. and Vladimir Gotlieb, M.D., M.B.A.Graduates of offshore medical schools fill some of the most needed physician slots in New York State,and the monetary contributions of offshore ...
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The stethoscope is of the most fundamental tools for doctors and can be one of the most powerful in initial detection of cardiac or pulmonary illnesses. That’s why Dr. Paul ...
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(Reuters) - Orthopedic surgeons-in-training said they were tired less often after rules regulating how much they could work went into place, according to a U.S. survey.But the results published in ...
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Supercomputer and former Jeopardy! contestant Watson is the focus of a new Cleveland Clinic-IBM partnership that will teach Watson about medicine and help it become a clinical decision support tool ...
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October 28, 2012 4:00 am by ZEHR, DAN | 0 Comments
The fate of Proposition 1 -- the key piece of a proposal to overhaul the region's health care safety net and build a new medical school and teaching hospital in ...
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While medical schools have increased their medical school positions by about 30%, residency slots have increased at only 8%. Future doctors may have to pay for their residency if these ...
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September 27, 2012 5:39 am by Munz, Michele | 0 Comments
A Southern Illinois University School of Medicine pediatrician is studying the leading cause of long-term failure of kidney transplants in children by following cases of children treated in St. Louis.Dr. ...
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New York (Reuters Health) - The 2010 Affordable Care Act affects almost every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, but many future doctors who will be operating under its policies ...
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Inspired by the OpenScience Project and dismayed by fellow researchers’ stodgy, rarely-updated lab websites, a Princeton scientist plunked down his own money to design a site he hopes will inspire ...
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The University of Pennsylvania medical school is participating in an online education venture to provide free university seminars to the public on courses such as personalized medicine, vaccines and genomes.The ...
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April 2, 2012 11:07 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
Northeast Ohio Medical University is planning $130 million worth of expansion in the next few years, including a new research and education facility as well as the medical school’s first-ever ...
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I heard this over the weekend:“The students of today are training for a field that doesn’t currently exist.”Seems hard to believe, right?And yet, when I started medical school, there were ...
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The Obama administration is about to unveil a $1 billion plan to beef up the nation’s health care workforce. The goal, in part, is to increase the number of physicians ...
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