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Labour challenges Hunt to adopt NHS training policy he wanted to ‘nick’

Rachel Reeves tasks chancellor with finding money to double England’s doctor and nurse training places

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Draft of NHS workforce plan calls for doubling of medical school places

Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023

Editorial: A welcome revolt against the flawed college ranking system

A handful of top medical schools, including Stanford and Columbia, pulled out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings in January, following a similar exodus of more than a dozen law schools, including UC Berkeley, Yale and Harvard, late last year. It’s a welcome development that is overdue. Undergraduate…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 2, 2023

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Scant obesity training in medical school leaves docs ill-prepared to help patients

Most doctors get little training in the science of obesity or how to counsel people with the disease. As a result, many patients experience stigma in the exam room.

WEKU · Jan 31, 2023

‘Culture is hard to break’: Kenya’s medical schools face a shortage of cadavers

Medical training is in demand, but hesitancy on body donation means students have little to work with, while an illicit trade in transplant organs flourishes

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2023

Government refuses to fund UK students at new medical school despite ‘chronic’ doctor shortage

The centre at Worcester University could be forced to train only overseas students, who are unlikely to remain in Britain

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2023

UK must train more doctors and nurses, says NHS boss

Amanda Pritchard said “excellent” British candidates are being rejected from medical schools due to a lack of places

Evening Standard · Jan 14, 2023

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In lawsuit, student claims six Texas medical schools are illegally considering race and sex in admissions

The plaintiff is represented by a group created by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller and former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 10, 2023

Love Island star shuns fame and returns to medical school to finish her final year

Love Island star Priya Gopaldas has left the world of showbiz behind and returned to medical school to complete her studies, after enjoying a stint in the iconic Spanish villa in 2021

Irish Mirror · Jan 10, 2023

Researchers Find Two Protein Pathways Downregulated In Postnatal Heart

Published on Thursday in Stem Cell Reports, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School discovered two signalling pathways that are downregulated in human hearts after birth. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Jan 6, 2023

California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2022

Identical twins sue school on being accused of cheating on exam; win $1.5M

Twin sisters Kayla and Kellie Bingham were both aspiring doctors. However, their dreams were shattered when in 2016, they were accused of cheating on their year-end medical school exams, following which they filed a defamation case against the school.

The Times of India · Dec 14, 2022

NHS paying up to £5,200 a shift for agency doctors, Labour research shows

Party criticises significant rise in use of temporary staff while places at medical school have been cut

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes Make Anxious Smokers Smoke Less

According to Penn State College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School researchers, reducing the quantity of nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels may help smokers with mood or anxiety issues quit without harming their mental health. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Nov 27, 2022

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Daily Mirror · Nov 23, 2022

Warning to anyone who’s had Covid over side effect which could impact you every day

A new study conducted at the Hull York Medical School has gone on to suggest that "Covid-19 negatively impacts working memory or short-term memory function" - but only in a specific age group

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Advising older patients against breast cancer surgery is ‘age bias’, UK study finds

Exclusive: Brighton and Sussex medical school found ‘misplaced beliefs’ led to lower surgery rates

Daily Mirror · Nov 2, 2022

Jeremy Hunt privately backed Labour's plan to boost student doctor numbers

The Chancellor is preparing to unveil eye-watering cuts on public spending after the Tories crashed the economy - but a leaked email shows he previously said ministers should pinch Labour's idea to double medical school places

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022

Moderator raises eyebrows by refusing to call Mehmet Oz ‘Dr Oz’

Television reporters Dennis Owens of ABC27 and Lisa Sylvester of Pittsburgh’s WPXI spent the entire debate referring to the ex-Columbia University medical school instructor as ‘Mr Oz’

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France 24 · Oct 24, 2022

Repatriated Indian medical students return to Ukraine despite conflict

One of the many consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the exodus of thousands of foreign students, who were forced to flee the country. Among them were more 18,000 Indian medical students, who made their way to neighbouring European countries in order to be repatriated. But back home,…

The Hindu · Oct 6, 2022

Madras Medical College, a cradle of medical education in India

The college had its origin in a private medical hall run by D. Mortimer, superintendent of the Government General Hospital. It was then regularised as Madras Medical School and attached to the general hospital, and officially became MMC in 1850

Miami Herald · Sep 29, 2022

Looking like their patients — UM, MDC work to get more people of color into medical school

MIAMI -- Dr. Miguel Escanelle has always loved science.

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2022

Reeves: I’ll reverse abolition of 45% income tax rate to fund NHS staffing surge

The shadow chancellor said a Labour administration would also implement the “biggest expansion of medical school places in British history”.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 7, 2022

‘One of the biggest problems confronting medicine today’: University of Chicago offers class on misinformation

CHICAGO -- Patients have long been told to turn to their doctors for accurate, trusted health information.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 30, 2022

Commentary: I am California’s acting surgeon general. And I have bipolar disorder

In 2011 I was a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. I was on my psychiatry rotation — and I had a secret.

Bangkok Post · Aug 24, 2022

Medical studies in Grenada, West Indies: stepping stone to a rewarding career

Located on the Caribbean Island of Grenada in the West Indies, St. George’s University (SGU), has been making a name for itself as an international medical school, graduating doctors who have practiced their specialties all over the world.

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