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NYU and other universities looking to shorten medical school to three years

Health & Medicine

The process of becoming a doctor typically takes four or more years for students to complete. But now some universities are looking into shortening the process by one year — in part to minimize the burden of student debt.

New guidelines urge doctors to screen patients for obesity

Health & Medicine

Bioethicist sees promise in home HIV test, but raises serious questions

Health & Medicine

Bioethicist discusses why hospitals may deny transplants for intellectually disabled

Health & Medicine

Doctors question effectiveness, morality of taking an obese 8-year-old out of his home

Health & Medicine

Obama administration considering whether to test anthrax vaccine on children

Health & Medicine

A group of scientists have recommended testing out the safety of the current anthrax vaccine, which is deemed safe for adults, when its administered to children.

Rule changes on hospital visitation

Global Politics

Medical rights for gay couples expanded with President Obama’s recently announced rules changes aimed at hospital visiting rights.

Study of Studies Finds Retractions in Drug Literature Often Indicative of Misconduct

In January 2003, The Lancet – one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals – published an article championing the combination of two drugs (ACE inhibitors and ARBs) in treating certain types of kidney disease. More than 100,000 patients were prescribed these two drugs in combination. But then an investigation concluded that the […]

Ethical Questions Surround New At-Home HIV Test

This week an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend the approval of the first-ever rapid, over-the-counter, completely in-home HIV test.  Though the FDA has approved other HIV test kits designed for at-home use in the past, those tests require a blood sample that must be sent in to a laboratory […]

Organ Donation in the Age of Social Networking

Facebook has experimented with a lot of new and questionable plans over the years, from their controversial default privacy settings to their timeline layout, which some users love, and others hate.  But it seems no plan is as unusual as their new one, launched yesterday. In short, the plan encourages everyone on Facebook to advertise their […]