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Celebrating the 2025 AAMC Award Winners

Throughout their careers, these academic medicine faculty have had an outsize impact on medical education, the biomedical sciences, and patient care.

Oct. 23, 2025

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As immigration enforcement increases, so do health risks to detainees, advocate says

Faisal Al-Juburi, of legal aid nonprofit RAICES, sounds the alarm about the inhumane treatment of detained immigrants.

Oct. 21, 2025

Doctors looking at medical results on a laptop in a meeting at the hospital

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Medical schools train faculty on AI best practices

Faculty are training one another to understand artificial intelligence and use it to build curricula, develop quizzes, create presentations, and more.

Oct. 16, 2025

Young woman holding patient tray with main meal

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Hospital food gets a healthy makeover

From hiring Michelin-star chefs to sourcing produce from local farmers, academic health systems are transforming their culinary services to help patients heal.

Oct. 14, 2025

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4 medical advances that are improving care and saving lives

A pioneering heart valve transplant, creating speech for a paralyzed patient, and more. Check out advances in academic medicine that are changing patient care.

April 8, 2025

Casey Harrell weeps with joy after using a brain-computer interface created at UC Davis Health that enabled him to speak for the first time in years.

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How young is too young for GLP-1s? Bariatric surgery? Academic experts offer insights

Pediatric prescriptions for some weight-loss drugs have skyrocketed. Thousands get bariatric surgery each year. What makes sense for kids considered obese?

Jan. 28, 2025

Frankie McGinn, 17, is being treated for a basketball injury.

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Thinking outside the box: A new approach to scientific discovery

Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, PhD, and David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, discuss how they leveraged biomedical discoveries to save millions of lives.

Nov. 11, 2024

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, leads a plenary discussion with Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, PhD, and David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, at Learn Serve Lead 2024: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov. 11.

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This doctor saved his own life. Now he’s on a mission to save thousands more

David Fajgenbaum, MD, nearly died from a rare disease, but his own research unearthed a treatment. Now he’s using AI and groundbreaking research to help others.

Sept. 24, 2024

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5 medical breakthroughs that ease pain and save lives

From a supersmart bionic leg to gene therapy for deafness, we look at recent advancements from academic medicine that aim to reduce suffering and treat disease.

July 30, 2024

A young African-American doctor works on HUD or graphic display in front of her. We see her from the waist up in a modern laboratory.

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AAMC Encouraged by SCOTUS Decision on Mifepristone Access

The AAMC issued a statement regarding the SCOTUS decision on a case about mifepristone access.

June 13, 2024

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CBD: Does it work? Is it safe? Is it legal?

Cannabidiol has been used for insomnia, anxiety, and more. But is marijuana’s cousin safe and effective? And is it legal? Your CBD questions answered.