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A good friend once told Detrioit’s Cedric Mutebi that “our bodies see inequities before our minds do.” The words...

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Over the last two weeks, the world has watched in shock as Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. The human...

January 7, 2022

It was springtime in the Shenandoah Valley when Virginia’s first medical school went up in flames. Ordered by a former...

December 22, 2021

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December 15, 2021

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October 13, 2021

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September 12, 2021

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July 23, 2021

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May 29, 2021

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May 5, 2021

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March 25, 2021

Until last week, Muhammad Qureshi’s dream of becoming a practising American doctor was on track. An American...

March 19, 2021

Today tens of thousands of medical graduates across the United States will receive an email informing them of the...

March 16, 2021

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When Eric Gantwerker was growing up in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, he and older brother Brian were passionate video...

February 12, 2021

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February 7, 2021

Though study materials, highlighter pens, and empty coffee cups cover the table, medical students around the world are...

January 29, 2021

Early last March, Elif Yakut, a 29-year-old medical graduate from Turkey, traveled to Philadelphia to complete her...

January 22, 2021

There are more than 120,000 medical students in the United States. Like most others studying medicine around the world,...

January 13, 2021

Like more than 222,000 of her fellow Americans, a 75-year-old lung cancer survivor from New Jersey tested positive for...

December 22, 2020

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December 12, 2020

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December 5, 2020

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November 25, 2020

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November 19, 2020

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November 13, 2020

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November 11, 2020

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October 31, 2020

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October 22, 2020

It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War II...

October 15, 2020

A couple of years ago, two med students—and roommates—at the University of California, Irvine starting coming back from...

October 8, 2020

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October 3, 2020

Since the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the United States on January 20, more than 7.3 million Americans...

October 1, 2020

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September 24, 2020

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September 16, 2020

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September 10, 2020

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September 4, 2020

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September 1, 2020

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August 28, 2020

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August 26, 2020

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August 13, 2020

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August 11, 2020

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August 7, 2020

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August 4, 2020

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July 30, 2020

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July 25, 2020

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July 24, 2020

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July 18, 2020

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July 16, 2020

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July 14, 2020

In a powerful personal essay for STAT, Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recalled the time she tried to speak up against...

July 10, 2020

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July 4, 2020

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July 1, 2020

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June 26, 2020

Like tens of thousands of his fellow Philadelphians, Carl Black took to the streets of his hometown following the...

June 24, 2020

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June 16, 2020

In the long, painful fight against racial injustice in the United States, July 10, 2008 is a date taught in few schools...

June 9, 2020

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June 3, 2020

To the early members of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), the summer of 1964 might have had a similar...

May 28, 2020

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May 25, 2020

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May 22, 2020

As well as prompting an incredible response from the medical field, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically...

May 21, 2020

While still scarcer than men, a female surgeon is now a common sight in the American military’s operating theaters. A...

May 15, 2020

Like everywhere else in the world, when the COVID-19 crisis struck Ireland, its medical community responded with a...

May 13, 2020

Despite an extensive range of variables, for hundreds of years, medical practitioners and researchers have been able to...

May 8, 2020

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May 5, 2020

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April 30, 2020

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April 24, 2020

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April 9, 2020

Over two public lectures in Philadelphia in late May 1765, a 29-year-old European-educated ex-army surgeon delivered a...

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