Medical Schools

The group Doctors Without Borders has aided victims of war and disease in countries like Sudan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Three top Dutch medical schools are asking thousands of travellers to tropical countries to donate stool samples on return for a study into the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

A woman gave birth to a baby girl on a trolleybus in Bratislava, the Slovakian capital's transport authority said Wednesday.

Conrad Murray was described Tuesday as a humble man who escaped a dirt-poor Caribbean childhood to become a respected medic -- but will now be known forever only as Michael Jackson's killer.

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Nearly 300 residents at hospitals across Israel failed to turn up to work Monday and hundreds more were poised to resign later the same day in a dispute over pay and conditions.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minimally invasive surgery for a burst appendix appears to be more successful and less costly in the long run than the traditional operation, a new study hints.

KANSAS CITY, Kan (Reuters) - A Kansas college hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a medical school in a rural area.

KANSAS CITY, Kan (Reuters) - A Kansas college hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a medical school in a rural area.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study that flies in the face of common sense, sicker patients turned out to fare worse under the care of seasoned doctors than when newcomers to medicine looked after them.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First-year residents may soon get a reprieve from grueling hospital shifts that last more than 24 hours, but that is not enough to prevent an alarming number of medical errors, according to a report released on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First-year residents may soon get a reprieve from grueling hospital shifts that last more than 24 hours, but that is not enough to prevent an alarming number of medical errors, according to a report released on Friday.

Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan's main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Polish port city of Gdansk is famous for its shipyards. Hungary's fifth largest city, Pecs, is known for its ancient architecture and brewery. Neither is particularly renowned for medicine. Yet when AstraZeneca Plc tested its big new drug hope Brilinta on heart attack patients in a major clinical study, it was hospitals in these places that enrolled some of the highest number of patients anywhere in the world.

Henderson program, one of industry's Ôbest-kept secrets,' teaches complex medical procedures to accredit EMTs . In the middle of a sterilized room in a nondescript Henderson office park, 13 students dressed in blue scrubs huddle around a body lying on a cold metal table. The pale, tan-colored cadaver was once a California man in his senior years. Now, his body - donated to medical science - is helping to teach paramedics some of the skills necessary to save a life. This is not a class for the fainthearted, or for just any emergency medical technician. The students gathered at MedCure's Henderson office are part of American Medical Response and MedicWest's critical care technician program, a three-week course for the highest level of paramedics. The facility is one of just a few training centers across the country that enable paramedics to obtain the CCT designation, which allows EMTs to perform dangerous and complex medical procedures that can't be administered by general EMTs. The tra

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study finds mixed results in the rates of death and complications after surgery at hospitals that train doctors versus those that don't.

Actos, a medicine that treats adult onset diabetes, also prevented the development of the disease in more than 70 percent of people who are considered high risk, according to findings announced Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than 6 out of 10 surgical residents work more hours than safety regulations allow, according to a new survey.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health) - Fourth-year medical students - at least those at the University of Illinois at Chicago -- are not very proficient at detecting melanomas, the most serious type of skin cancer, researchers from that school said this week at the 69th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Kansas junior college defends decision to kick out 4 nursing students over placenta pictures. A junior college in suburban Kansas City is defending its decision to kick out four students who posed for photos with a human placenta.