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

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

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 ...

For infectious disease (ID) specialist Helen Boucher, MD, dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Tufts Medicine, the threat of drug-resistant superbugs is up ...

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 ...

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 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 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences honors an individual or a team of two individuals for outstanding research in the basic or translational sciences. The AAMC has awarded ...

Achieving salary equity in academic medicine is essential, not only to attract and retain the best and brightest talent, but to ensure excellence and sustainability across institutional missions. Fair ...

DWS Analytics for Schools - A set of dashboards that medical schools can access to use ERAS data to support students, monitor trends, identify opportunities, and measure impacts. How to Create a ...

Nonprofit academic health systems and teaching hospitals play a unique role in their communities. At these institutions, expert physicians train the doctors of tomorrow and deliver patient care ...