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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

Editor's note: This article was updated on Oct. 6 to reflect new CDC guidance on the COVID vaccine. Each year about this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on ...

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.

When the biotechnology company Genentech convened a summit of patients four years ago to discuss the value of their participation in clinical trials, it came up empty for one group of people. “We ...

In recent years, there has been concern among policymakers about increasing consolidation in the U.S. health care system. One particular concern is that consolidation of health systems and hospitals ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series exploring the promise and limitations of the field of personalized medicine. The second part will focus on issues around equity and access to care ...

Since 2018, Amy Prescott, MD, has worked as a resident at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. About six months ago, one of her colleagues, an experienced emergency department ...