Can more testosterone help people who do not have low levels? Some patients want it, physicians say it sometimes works, and ...

The prevalence of kidney stones has doubled in the past 30 years. Academic researchers are searching for better solutions for ...

Interest is booming in sports medicine and interventional cardiology, while fewer doctors are specializing in orthopedic surgery and radiology. The number of women doctors continues to grow and they ...

The AAMC has been closely tracking developments in National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural funding and in Oct. 2026 published Tracking Two Years of Change in NIH Funding, which draws from the ...

Established in 2020 by the Sullivan Alliance and the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) and named an AAMC presidential award by the AAMC Board of Directors in June 2022, the Louis W.

As an editor at Essence, a lifestyle magazine for Black women, in the 1980s and 1990s, Linda Villarosa set out to educate Black people about how to best take care of themselves. She blamed ...

Three years ago, a patient grappling with suicidal thoughts came to the University of North Carolina (UNC) Medical Center’s emergency department in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for help. Her parents ...

A painfully divided America can return to civil discourse only if people on all sides of the civic divide make themselves vulnerable to being challenged on their convictions, adopt the humility that ...

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

“Immunology.” “Hospice Rounds.” “On Doctoring.” These aren’t topics that Rafael Campo, MD, has taught at Harvard Medical School (HMS) — they are poems he has written. And he has written hundreds of ...

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the AAMC or its members. Men in the United States die by suicide at a rate four times higher than women.

Over his decades as an oncologist, Lawrence Shulman, MD, has seen amazing advances in cancer treatments, including the development of oral medications that patients can take at home instead of coming ...