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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
Faisal Al-Juburi
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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
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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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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
Doctors looking at medical results on a laptop in a meeting at the hospital
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To restore trust in science, scientists should focus on storytelling

Holden Thorp, PhD, top editor at Science, discusses the essential role of front-line doctors, the power of well-told stories, and the value of admitting error.

  • Aug. 20, 2025
Holden Thorp, PhD, gives the commencement address at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine 2025 commencement ceremony.
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Enlisting the vagus nerve to help the body heal itself

Researchers are advancing the field of electronic stimulation of the vagus nerve.

  • Aug. 13, 2025
Dawn Steiner, center, attends a 2024 Mets game with her daughter, Sara, and her husband, Alan, after an electrical device implanted in her neck helped her find relief from rheumatoid arthritis.
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Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless”

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.

  • June 20, 2025
Francis Collins, MD, PhD
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Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it

Faculty used to fret over how artificial intelligence might affect education. Now they’re training medical students how to use it for patient care and research.

  • May 15, 2025
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National Organizations Announce Joint Effort to Develop a New Indirect Costs Funding Model

National organizations have joined to spur the development of a more efficient and transparent model for funding indirect costs on federal research grants.

  • April 8, 2025
Research in Laboratory
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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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The patient gown: Ugh. No one likes it, but some teaching hospitals offer alternatives.

Traditional hospital gowns draw concerns that they dehumanize patients and make many providers uneasy. New versions offer dignity, comfort, and practicality.

  • April 2, 2025
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Nobel laureate: Basic science research is critical for medical progress

Victor Ambros, PhD, co-winner of the 2024 prize in medicine, says public support and scientific fellowship fueled discovery of an RNA that regulates genes.

  • March 11, 2025
Victor Ambros, PhD, speaks at news conference after winning the Nobel Prize.
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AI in medical education: 5 ways schools are employing new tools

Artificial intelligence is being tapped to create quizzes, simulate patients, pinpoint student struggles, and write assessments. Humans remain ‘in the loop.’

  • Feb. 27, 2025
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