Medical Education

CORRIB Core Lab team is working with three major European hospitals to pioneer a new method of guidance for heart bypass surgeryCredit: NUI Galway A new approach to the guidance, planning and conducting of heart bypass surgery is…

PHILADELPHIA (November 24, 2020) - In-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCA) represent catastrophic and often terminal events. Despite investments to improve the quality of resuscitation efforts, fewer than 25% of all patients that experience…

To improve culture of academic medicine, professionalism standards must be more inclusive, according to Penn Medicine study PHILADELPHIA - Marginalized groups of people value professionalism more -- and are more likely to leave a job at an…

PHILADELPHIA (November 23 2020) - Survivors of COVID-19 are a vulnerable population who often have health ramifications from their illness and hospital stay. Upon returning home from acute care, large proportions of survivors experience…

HOBOKEN, N.J.-- November 19, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWA) (NYSE: JWB), a global leader in research and education, and Jisc, the not-for-profit technology provider, today announced the expansion of their partnership with…

WHAT The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will hold an interactive policy forum on "Measuring Teaching at a Global Scale--Policy Perspectives on the…

NEW YORK - November 17, 2020 - The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that the 2021 Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit will now take place as a virtual event called CTO Connect. It will take place online February…

New Orleans, LA - A technology to diagnose a potentially fatal disease in premature infants invented by Sunyoung Kim, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been granted a…

US nephrology trainees report low confidence in preparedness for home hemodialysisCredit: Gupta et al, AJKD (2020) This study assessed nephrology fellows' confidence and clinical experience with these therapies near the completion of their…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (November 13, 2020) - The Global Philadelphia Association uses the award to recognize international significant achievements of Philadelphia leaders in medicine and business entrepreneurship. Penn…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (November 12, 2020) - Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is the third most common pediatric chronic disease in the United States, and the risk of the disease has risen sharply in non-Hispanic Black (NHB)…

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson-led tele-ultrasound training program for lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) will enable rural emergency departments to more effectively identify and treat suspected COVID-19…

Wales faces a wave of mental health problems in the wake of Covid-19, with younger adults, women and people from deprived areas suffering the mostCredit: Pexels Wales faces a wave of mental health problems in the wake of Covid-19, with…

New study shows kids' physical fitness is more important than BMICredit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA For adults, the goal of exercise is often to shed some pounds, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests the objective…

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Khanh Do, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, is a member of the first group chosen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as NIH…

A study led by University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher Dr. Julie Bauman that's investigating a personalized cancer vaccine has reported a 50% response rate for patients with head and neck cancer in its preliminary dataCredit:…

Credit: Schachner & Spieler - LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - AuntMinnie.com awarded Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman of Radiology Research and Associate Professor of Radiology, and Emma R. Schachner, PhD, Associate…

Credit: Owen Egan Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) is proud to announce that McGill University biochemist and professor Nahum Sonenberg will be awarded an honorary doctorate during the virtual graduation ceremony…

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A recently developed data science pathway for fourth-year radiology residents will help prepare the next generation of radiologists to lead the way into the era of…

Researchers monitor brain cells in mice that build mental models to simulate the futureCredit: Thomas Akam / Rui Costa / Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown NEW YORK -- Our minds can help us make decisions by contemplating the…