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Former manager of Harvard morgue charged with trafficking human remains

BOSTON — A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue has been charged with alleged trafficking of human remains.

Boston Herald

Morgue bosses 'stole and sold human BODY PARTS' in horror Harvard Medical School scheme

Harvard Medical School's morgue bossCedric Lodge is accused of letting people pick which human body parts they wanted to buy before stealing brains, skin and bones from donated cadavers to ship to them in the mail from his home

Daily Mirror

Dobbs decision now a factor in med school residency picks - Roll Call

Data shows abortion ruling may play a role in medical school residency decisions, could drive some away from becoming OB-GYNs.

Roll Call

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Student's dreams 'ruined' by long Covid that forced him to drop out of medical school

Dylan Kelly, 25, has been left with a chronic lack of energy, nerve pain, and migraines after initially catching the virus in February 2020 and later being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome

Daily Mirror

Student gives up dream of becoming a doctor after contracting Long Covid

Dylan had been offered a place at medical school before he fell ill

Wales Online

New Zealand's reliance on foreign doctors to plug gaps highlights the need for another medical school

The New Zealand health system is currently in the throes of its biggest reorganisation in more than 20 years. The aim is to provide more efficiency and equity.

The Conversation

The Earth's Corr: Electrifying your bike will change your life

Recent research by Germany’s Hannover Medical School found riding an e-bike regularly can cut the risk of a heart attack by 40%

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Federal government's $1 billion effort to recruit next generation of doctors at risk

Thousands of doctors and nurses signed on to work in the country’s most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiveness of medical school debt

The Independent UK

Stolen body parts donated to medical science allegedly sold to man thief met on Facebook

Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, allegedly sold Pennsylvania man Jeremy Lee Pauley 20 boxes of body parts stolen from a mortuary after being used as medical school cadavers

Daily Mirror

Opioid crisis can’t be tackled without better pain management training for doctors

Many primary care practitioners are not adequately trained in pain management since learning about it is not required in medical school or during residency, a physician writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Medical students lose their empathy – here's what can be done about it

A lack of empathy in healthcare can be disastrous. In the UK, between 2005 and 2009, hundreds of avoidable deaths occurred at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis report, which investigated the causes of the failings, concluded that a lack of empathy contributed to the catastrophe.

The Conversation

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

WEKU

'May cause serious side-effects': How medical school admissions can perpetuate inequality and reward privilege

Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences — through, for example, physician shadowing, global health experiences or medical scribe work — can have harmful unintended consequences.

The Conversation

Don't bet with ChatGPT – study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions

The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in large language model artificial intelligence systems that can do things like write poetry, conduct humanlike conversations and pass medical school exams. This progress has yielded models like ChatGPT that could have major social and economic ramifications ranging from job…

The Conversation

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Zenger

Woman Who Beat Cancer At 14 Now Training To Become Doctor

Ellie Waters, who overcame cancer at the age of 14 despite being given a 20% chance of surviving, is now pursuing medical school.

Dynamite News

Communication in brain changes during dieting: Study

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet: The nerve cells that mediate the feeling of hunger receive stronger signals, so that the mice eat significantly more after the diet and…

Tribune News Service

California needs more Black, Latino doctors. Could community colleges be part of the solution?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has struggled for years to recruit aspiring physicians of color into its health care workforce, despite the state’s highly diverse population.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: For healthy communities, medical schools must increase student diversity

This month, a very significant event for millions of Americans took place: the National Resident Matching Program’s annual residency match. This is when medical school graduates hope to find a residency program where they will continue their graduate medical education. These are the physicians who will be caring for you…

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Newcastle Herald

Mosley wakes up Aussies to their sleep issues

YOU'LL often find Dr Michael Mosley awake at 3am. Not because the British documentary maker and science journalist is a renown night owl or party animal, but because he suffers from "terrible insomnia." "I find it easy to go to sleep but I tend to wake up at 3am and…

The Independent UK

Student rushed to hospital with ‘pulled muscle’ diagnosed with rare cancer

Elena Espinosa Cabrera, 20, was revising for her medical school entrance exams when she went to A&E with pain in her abdomen

Reason

No Pseudonymity in Student's Claim That She Was Wrongly Found to Have Cheated

From Doe v. Univ. of Penn., decided today by Judge Cynthia Rufe (E.D. Pa.): At all times relevant to this action, Plaintiff was a student in Penn's Pre-Med Post- Baccalaureate Program …. Plaintiff began the Program in May 2020, and had planned to apply to medical school upon its completion…

Axios

Specialty residencies remain popular among future doctors

More medical school graduates are steering away from emergency medicine and opting for specialties like orthopedics and plastic surgery, raising concern about a field that bore the brunt of COVID-19 and remains beset by the overdose epidemic and other health crises.

The Guardian - UK

Labour challenges Hunt to adopt NHS training policy he wanted to ‘nick’

Rachel Reeves tasks chancellor with finding money to double England’s doctor and nurse training places

The Guardian - UK

Draft of NHS workforce plan calls for doubling of medical school places

Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: A welcome revolt against the flawed college ranking system

A handful of top medical schools, including Stanford and Columbia, pulled out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings in January, following a similar exodus of more than a dozen law schools, including UC Berkeley, Yale and Harvard, late last year. It’s a welcome development that is overdue. Undergraduate…

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