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 ...

An art museum isn’t traditionally associated with medical school. But several medical schools are offering courses that give students a chance to refine their observation skills, and in turn their ...

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.

Since June 2022, when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, more than a dozen states have enacted a ban on the procedure. And ...

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 the past several years, COVID-19 has surged twice a year — once in the winter and once in the late summer. This pattern seems to be repeating in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on climate change and health. Other articles in this series include stories on how extreme heat affects health, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ...

After completing her bachelor’s degree, Louisa Holaday took a job as a compliance officer in the biological sciences division of the University of Chicago. Her job was to review research protocols ...

When Jaime Ross, PhD, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, decided to study how contaminating the drinking water of mice with tiny fragments ...