The prevalence of kidney stones has doubled in the past 30 years. Academic researchers are searching for better solutions for ...

The emergency team at the Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) was well-experienced at responding quickly and calmly under pressure from what comes through the doors of a Level 1 trauma unit: people ...

Skin cancer cases in the United States more than tripled from 1975 to 2021, despite technological advances in sunscreens and public awareness of the risks of sun exposure. In Canada, melanoma — the ...

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, people ages 60 and older accounted for 75% of the deaths. During the Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021, most of the nearly one thousand who ...

Every morning at 5 a.m., Christa Foss, 42, a second-year anesthesia resident at Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, settles into the driver’s seat of her ...

When Jessica de Laguna was growing up in foster care near San Francisco, she felt no one had time to help her focus on what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I just learned to survive,” says de ...

Ibram X. Kendi — 2016 National Book Award winner, founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020 — boldly proclaims his ...

For Joel Bervell, MD, improving health starts with meeting people where they are — online. With more than 2 million followers across his social media channels and with a reach of 15 million viewers ...

“The worst thing you can do when you’re sad is try not to be sad.” A 6-year-old girl named Maria who had lost her mom to colon cancer said this to Laurel Braitman, PhD, while coloring at a grief ...

The AAMC is closely tracking developments in National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural funding. This page provides regular updates on NIH-obligated funding, drawing from NIH RePORTER. All figures ...

The U.S. Medical School Revenue summary tables and graphs summarize data from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Part I-A Annual Medical School Financial Questionnaire (AFQ) ...

Each year, the AAMC conducts the Development Survey to measure the impact, costs, and staffing of fundraising at its member medical schools and academic health systems and teaching hospitals.