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UW-Madison gets $41M grant to take health research to the public

MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $41 million in the next five years to help it move medical discoveries from research labs to public practice.

September 18, 2007

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2 University of Arkansas Medical School residency programs on probation

LITTLE ROCK Two family medicine programs for training doctors that are operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are on probation by an accrediting group for deficiencies in supervising doctors in training while they delivered babies and for weakness in continuing education for physicians.

September 16, 2007

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Navajo Leaders Struggle To Understand University of Arizona Tragedy

The two Navajo girls, scholarship winners studying at the University of Arizona in Tucson, were the kind of young people Navajo elders hope and pray will carry on for them. Now, one is dead; The other is charged with her murder; And a community struggles to understand.

September 13, 2007

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North Dakota medical school gets $10 million grant renewal

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota medical school officials say the National Institutes of Health has renewed a $10 million grant for research into such diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

August 12, 2007

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UVa’s Martin Lends Expertise to Virginia Tech Panel

One of the nation’s preeminent authorities on emergency medicine, Dr. Marcus Martin aims to help the panel learn from the tragedy.

August 8, 2007

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Black Emergency Medicine Specialist Lends Expertise to Virginia Tech Panel

One of the nation’s preeminent authorities on emergency medicine, UVa.’s Dr. Marcus Martin aims to help the panel learn from the tragedy.

August 7, 2007

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Harvard Study Examines Hidden Biases Among ER Physicians

A new Harvard University study reports that physicians’ subconscious racial biases play a significant role in the care and treatment they provide to patients and is a contributing factor to the health disparity that exists between Black and White patients.

August 2, 2007

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University of Kentucky Medical School’s surgical chief working to score a first

LEXINGTON Ky. The University of Kentucky’s new surgical chief aims to put UK on the medical map as a leader in the development of the artificial lung.

July 28, 2007

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UVM College of Medicine gets new dean

BURLINGTON Vt. A pediatrician from Buffalo, N.Y., will become the next dean of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

July 28, 2007

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OSU seeking to increase med students to meet rural MD demand

STILLWATER Okla. Regents governing Oklahoma State University plan to seek state funding to increase the number of students attending the OSU medical school to help ease an expected rural doctor shortage.

July 27, 2007

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Harding graduates first class of high-demand physician assistants

SEARCY Ark. Harding University graduated its first class of physician assistants Saturday, one of the fastest growing professions in the nation.

July 27, 2007

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Harvard’s Benjamin Sachs to head Tulane’s med school

NEW ORLEANS A Harvard Medical School professor will become head of Tulane University School of Medicine on Nov. 1, Tulane announced Wednesday.

July 27, 2007