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As the University of Texas prepares to open its medical school in Austin in 2016, it is negotiating the delicate agreements between public university and the religiously-affiliated health care provider who will train its doctors.
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The Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego has launched a six-month “Wired for Health” study to evaluate the effectiveness of using mobile health devices to reduce healthcare costs.
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A prominent organization representing internal medicine physicians has launched a public relations campaign to, well, tell the public what internal medicine physicians do.
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Two Kansas doctors who have filed a lawsuit against a sweeping new state abortion law are attacking its form as well as its substance, hoping their objection to how lawmakers enacted the statute dooms it quickly.
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For its 30th anniversary this year, the Salt Lake City-based Wilderness Medical Society decided to say it with paper. Posters, to be exact.
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Online courses are now being offered for physicians preparing to take the first-ever American Board of Medical Specialties certification exam for clinical informatics.
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Some day, primary-care physician organizations may hold celebrations marking July 2013 as a tipping point for them.
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Some of the Chicago area's best-known teaching hospitals turn out the fewest primary-care doctors in the nation, despite a growing shortage of general practitioners that leaves many people without basic treatment.
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A surprising number of senior-level healthcare professionals are seeking an executive MBAs in part because of the federal Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and other changes in the health marketplace.
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John Maupin Jr., president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, will retire at the end of the next school year and, effective July 1, 2014, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice will replace him. Montgomery Rice, 51, was named executive VP and dean in 2011, and she will retain the...
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