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It may look like something out of a sci-fi film, but it’s a new reality in medicine. Advanced technology developed in collaboration with the US Department of Homeland Security’s “Stop…

If you’re a medical student considering specializing in drug and alcohol addiction treatment, know that you’ve chosen an area of medicine where there is an already alarming and increasing need….

It’s been called the deadliest drug crisis in American history and it’s changing the way medical schools train students. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under…

According to the American Medical Association’s Physician Masterfile, there are upwards of 800,000 practicing physicians throughout the United States and the vast majority – roughly 750,000 – are MDs (Doctor…

With news of the impending shortage of qualified physicians, thanks in large part to the expected mass exodus of retiring Baby Boomers over the next decade, medical schools nationwide are…

Over the past decade, medical school programs increasingly have incorporated art studies into their course offerings – an innovative move that has garnered much anecdotal success. Now, results of a…

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria already have cut swaths of devastation throughout the United States and the Caribbean, killing dozens and leaving tens of thousands homeless. And more storms may…

According to statistics compiled by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC, immigrants make up a sizeable portion of the nation’s health care workforce –…

If you were scheduled to take your MCAT exam in an area hit by Hurricanes Harvey or Irma, take note. Numerous MCAT test centers in storm-affected areas throughout Texas, Louisiana,…

A once purely functional space near the escalator that takes student from the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences into the Allen-Medical Metro Rail station has…