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The U.S. News and World Report just removed the Best Law School and Best Medical School previews, which were posted earlier this month. In place of the previews, which showed the Top 14 Law Schools and Top 15 Medical Schools: Research, U.S. News posted this announcement, which explains that the...

Last weekend, the President and CEO of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), David Skorton, MD, addressed over 4,200 leaders in academic medicine on the “four things that keep me up at night.” These include structural and cultural inequities in academic medicine, deteriorating...

Despite the prevalence of obesity and related diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and stroke in the US, there is little training on nutrition in American medical schools. Dr. Stephen Devries, a cardiologist and co-lead of the Nutrition Education Working...

The topic of "how to fix American healthcare" frequently came up in my interviews. It's interesting to learn what are the different sources of exorbitant health care costs in America, what other countries are doing, and what reform efforts are in progress. The first book I read on this topic...

I'm researching the field I most want to start studying in, and haven't really been able to get good answers on current issues and controversies. I'm looking more for things that pertain to companion animal veterinarians, but I keep coming up with other fields. Following this, it seems like...