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Traits Every Great Physician Has
Physicians have a highly respected career and it takes a huge commitment and hard work to achieve a future in medicine. Besides IQ, what qualities are needed to be a great Doctor? Compassion Doctors need heart, they aren't robots. Patients respond better to Physicians...
Diverse Physicians Needed To Improve Health Outcomes
There have been efforts to try and increase the number of minority ethnic groups in science and medicine but, the amount of African American men pursuing and obtaining degrees in such fields has reached a historic low. According to NBC news, in 1986 57 percent of...
Small Cars Making A Big Difference For Young Patients
Hospitals are raising spirits and decreasing anxiety in their younger patients by having them drive their own mini car to surgery. Some of the mini cars are equipped with a stereo, which has a variety of preloaded music and an MP3 player, as well as functioning...
Diversity In The Medical Field Isn’t Growing Fast Enough
Amid growing racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, the medical profession isn't growing with it. Between 1978 and 2008, 88 percent of graduates of U.S. medical schools were white or Asian. Blacks, American Indians and Hispanics together made up the...
Diversity In The Medical Field Isn’t Growing Fast Enough
Amid growing racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, the medical profession isn't growing with it. Between 1978 and 2008, 88 percent of graduates of U.S. medical schools were white or Asian. Blacks, American Indians and Hispanics together made up the...
Gene Therapy Aims At Stopping Blindness
Advances in gene therapy are finally yielding new options that are revolutionizing the treatment of inherited retinal degenerations.Kellogg Eye Center has begun treating patients with a new gene therapy for children and adults with inherited forms of vision loss. The...
Almost Half of Adults in the United States Have Some Type of Cardiovascular Disease
According to the American Heart Association, coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke or high blood pressure are some of the cardiovascular diseases that nearly half of U.S adults have. The association's annual report Heart and Stroke Statistics, showed deaths...
Global Search For Donors Of Rarest Blood
Zainab Mughal is two years old and battling cancer. She has some of the rarest blood and needs transfusions from seven to 10 donors. Only four have been found. According to OneBlood, only people of Pakistani, Indian or Iranian descent who have the same type of blood...
Lewis Katz School of Medicine Event: An Evening with Black Males in Medicine
An Evening with Black Males in Medicine event was intended to provide outreach, networking and mentorship. According to an article by Medium.com, 12 black male Physicians , all either graduates of Temple or in practice there , shared their wisdom with 21 aspiring...
Experimental Peanut Allergy Drug Ready For FDA Review
An experimental peanut allergy treatment is ready for U.S. Food and Drug Administration review. According to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine, A phase three trial included 551 people, most ages 4 to 17 with a history of life-threatening...
Deadly Viral Outbreak In New Jersey
According to a Reuters article, A total of 25 young patients with compromised immune systems have been confirmed with adenovirus infections at a New Jersey rehabilitation center, state health officials said. Over the weekend a ninth child was confirmed dead from the...
C-Section Deliveries Have Nearly Doubled
According to a study by The Lancet, the number of births by cesarean section is on the rise, climbing from about 16 million (12.1% of all births) in 2000 to 29.7 million (21.1% of all births) in 2015. The study's first author, Dr. Ties Boerma, told CNN, "We knew that...
First Spray-On Skin Treatment Approved By The FDA
ReCell, a regenerative skin-cell solution, is the first treatment of its kind approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for growing back skin. “You just spray it on the patient, on the burned area,” said Chris Houchens of the federal government’s Biomedical...
U.S. Facing Physician Shortage by 2030
According to new data published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the United States could see a shortage of up to 120,000 Physicians by 2030. The report aggregates the shortages in four broad categories: primary care, medical specialties,...
MRI Tests May Help Predict MS Progression
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often live with uncertainty because it's hard to predict how quickly the disease will progress and how disabling it might become. Magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRIs) have long been used to assist in diagnosing multiple sclerosis...