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The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) should be abolished.

A new video, created by the VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE/COE) program is now online.

A WHRY research project has received new funding to translate the game, called One Night Stan, from a role-playing card game into a videogame intervention prototype designed to empower adolescent black girls to take charge of their health.

This isn't your ordinary approach to the war on drugs.

One could argue that the poet and the physician are both interested in the same thing, that is the person, and his or her experience of being.

What if firearm deaths could be reduced by visits to the doctor? More than 35,000 Americans are killed annually by gunfire, about 60% of which are from suicide. The remaining deaths are mostly from accidental injury or homicide. Mass shootings represent only a tiny fraction of that number.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) faculty, residents, and students are engaged with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) initiatives far from the Yale campus, such as in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Rwanda, and Uganda. With its portability and immediacy, POCUS is a powerful diagnostic tool, which also can enhance medical education, both on campus, and worldwide.

A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that's given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, "What is up with the dude wall?"

Salon talks to the woman who inspired "House" about her new show and why it's "a great time" to be a patient