Medicine in The News

• Could popular weight-loss drugs help treat addiction and dementia?

• How medicine fails older people

• The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism’

• AI Screening of Medical School Applications: Development and Validation of a Machine-Learning Algorithm

• Personalized medicine is coming, but who will have access to it?

• Does racial resentment hurt White people, too? One doctor says yes

• The myth of health inequities

• How the repeal of Roe v. Wade will affect training in abortion and reproductive health

• Why are so many Black patients dying of skin cancer?
• Why does college cost so much?
• What is gender-affirming care?

• As drug overdoses soar, more providers embrace harm reduction

• Former Doctor Turns Pandemic Historian and Sleuth
• The future of CRISPR is now
• Read about the creation of the CMU Medical School Alumni Mentor Program (MSAMP)

• A Driving Force: Alumna’s push to advance equity and inclusion has been with her since her time as an undergrad

• How art and the humanities make for a better physician
• A CMU alumna at Pitt Med is helping to rewrite the oath of Hippocrates
• Traveling this holiday season? Here is some advice from doctors.
• A CMU alumna interviewed about how covid-19 added to her motivation to enter medicine
• A CMU alumna talks about the power of mentorship in medicine

• We need more transgender and gender nonbinary doctors

• The new normal for hospitals across the United States

• Moral injury in frontline health care workers facing COVID-19 pandemic
• Med students graduating early to help fight COVID-19
• Medical education during a pandemic
• CMU alumnus weighs in on COVID-19 treatment
• Safehouse - Philadelphia non-profit opening nation's first supervised injection site
• Major changes to USMLE Licensing exam: Step 1 moves to P/F
  • Should Step 1 be Pass/Fail?
  • Analysis of the changes from USMLE
• Ending gender harassment in medicine
• The importance of equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine
• Will free medical school lead to more primary care physicians?
• Check out what a CMU alumna has to say about med school at Baylor College of Medicine
• Why doctors know almost nothing about the health effects of marijuana
• The importance of psychological safety in medicine and other areas such as academics
• DO vs. MD: How much does the medical school degree type matter?
• Will artificial intelligence replace doctors?
• Weill Cornell Medicine announces debt-free medical education
• Discovering the hidden curriculum in med school
• How can health professions and grad schools do better for disadvantaged students
• Social Media in Medicine - evolving guidelines
• Thinking about med school after a previous career?
• Star Student-Athlete is on Track for Medical Career
• Trading Places: When doctors become patients
• Rooting out implicit bias in medical school admissions

• Bloody hands, dirty knives: The horrors of Victorian medicine

• Exposing vulnerabilities: How hackers could target your medical devices

• Putting Kindness in the curriculum
• 7 ways to reduce medical school debt
• Students learn to treat pain, with and without opioids

• Future or fad? Virtual reality in medical education

• The white coat: Symbol of professionalism or hierarchical elitism?

• Five emerging medical specialties you’ve never heard of — until now

• Breaking News Aug, 2018: Free Medical tuition at NYU Langone Medical School
• Learn more about the CMU Global Medical Brigades (.pptx file) and Global Public Health Brigades (video & .pptx file) service trips to Nicaragua, Spring Break, 2018.
• Pursuing medicine through engineering at CMU - see how the HPP helps engineering students pursue a career in health care.
• Read about how CMU helps to create a more holistic health care experience (article).