The Latest Breaking News from Medical School

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

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

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

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 · Nov 23, 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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022