The Senate Special Committee on Aging will hold a hearing, “Leveling the Playing Field: Restoring America’s Edge in Generic Drug Manufacturing.” Sept. 24: Senate HELP Committee Hearing on HHS ...

Psychiatrists weigh in on appropriate de-prescribing, mental health stigma, and the need to expand access to care.

AAMC president and CEO David Skorton, MD, will retire on Jun 30, 2027 after eight years as head of the association. A search ...

A unique summer program invites trainees to confront health inequities firsthand. A new documentary highlights the program, ...

In research labs at Harvard Medical School (HMS), artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just a piece of technology that scientists tap into for help with a project. Rather, many of them see AI as a ...

When Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute oncologist Brian Wolpin, MD, took the stage at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting earlier this year, he didn’t expect to get ...

Visitors to the Human Longevity Laboratory, part of the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, spend up to three hours undergoing a battery of tests.

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 26 with new statistics on the flu season thus far. At least 19 million Americans have come down with the flu — and 10,000, including 44 children, have ...

Medical school enrollment broke 100,000 students for the first time in 2025, new AAMC data shows. Each year, the AAMC publishes data on the most recent cohort of applicants and matriculants ...

For infectious disease (ID) specialist Helen Boucher, MD, dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Tufts Medicine, the threat of drug-resistant superbugs is up ...