Medical Education

New Orleans, LA - Frank Lau, MD, Associate Professor in the Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a grant by the Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons to improve…

Competencies aim to improve obesity medicine education for schools, healthcare professionals DENVER--Today, the research journal Obesity published the study "Development of Obesity Competencies for Medical Education: A Report from the…

Special Focus Issue of Personalized Medicine highlights the importance and latest strategies of genetic and genomic education The Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Personalized Medicine, has announced the release of a Special…

Springer Nature video offers insights, research and training material from experts/ medicine and professional and applied computing will be the first video subject collections Springer Nature is launching a new collection of educational,…

Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg/University of Gothenburg Gunilla Backman, Carl Bennet, and Denis Mukwege have been appointed honorary doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The three people awarded honorary…

Government policy and infrastructure have a substantial impact on hospitalization of older adults, according to a University of Waterloo study. The study examined the experiences of 254,664 patients in home-care programs and 162,045…

New Orleans, LA - In the first study of its kind, LSU Health New Orleans researchers report that women's pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity produces changes in breast milk, which can affect infant growth. The research findings are…

Credit: Penn Nurisng PHILADELPHIA (June 12, 2019) - To reduce the number of people who may misuse, abuse, or overdose from opioids, multiple national agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 11, 2019) - History provides an enhanced understanding of the factors that inform social policy. In the wider arena of public health and its influence on social change, the political and healing…

CRF meeting covering the latest in structural heart disease will take place June 12-15 in Chicago WHAT: The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that TVT 2019, the Structural Heart Summit, will feature four studies…