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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

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

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:

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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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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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,…

France 24

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

The Hindu

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

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

Miami Herald

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”.

The Independent UK

‘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.

Chicago Tribune

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.

Los Angeles Times

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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Afghan medical student starts over in France

The 15th of August marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who have fled the country. In episode four of our series of special reports, we meet Fatemeh Abdali, whose medical studies were interrupted when the Taliban took over Kabul.…

The Independent UK

Book has insight, no clear answer on Northam yearbook photo

Another investigative effort to uncover the origins of a racist photo on Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page has ended inconclusively

Tribune News Service

Medical schools, students review training amid abortion bans

Ghazaleh Moayedi credits many of her strengths as a Texas-based obstetrician-gynecologist to training related to abortion. Outpatient abortion training builds bedside manner and teaches practical technical skills outside of a hospital, she says.

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Medical schools, students review training amid abortion bans - Roll Call

The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion has medical schools and students reviewing training amid worry about lost skills.

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The Independent UK

Child prodigy is accepted to medical school programme one year after graduating high school

Alena Analeigh, who will began classes at the University of Michigan in 2024, is the youngest African American to be admitted into med school

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn’s medical school formalizes its partnership with HBCUs in pursuit of greater diversity

PHILADELPHIA — Aspiring doctor Danielle Johnson is spending her summer at the University of Pennsylvania, researching how to get more people of color to participate in clinical trials aimed at improving treatment of heart disease so they are proportionately represented.

WEKU

Michigan medical students walk out on an anti-abortion keynote speaker

A petition had circulated before Sunday's white coat ceremony asking the university to remove the speaker, a physician who directs the school's Health, Spirituality and Religion program.

The Independent UK

Medical school students walk out on anti-abortion speaker at University of Michigan

The medical school students had filed a petition to remove the anti-abortion keynote speaker from the annual ceremony earlier, but the dean denied the motion

The Philadelphia Inquirer

North Philly community members are getting a say in choosing Temple's next class of medical students

PHILADELPHIA — In the highly competitive process of finding students with the best potential to become doctors, Temple University has turned to a previously untapped resource: members of its North Philadelphia community, who know better than anyone whom they would like to see treating them and their family members.

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After a horrific car crash, doctor Dinesh Palipana saw the emergency ward from the patients' side

Dinesh Palipana would not let his disability get in the way of fulfilling his dream of becoming a doctor. Now he is helping to make the profession more inclusive for others.

Los Angeles Times

'Bad City' alleges bad behavior — by a medical school dean, USC and within the Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — It would be hard to find a worse couple of years than 2016 and 2017 for two major Los Angeles institutions: the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Times.

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