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UCLA advisor earns national recognition for educating medical students

On January 17, UCLA Health System announced that Mitsue Yokota, 35, a career advisor and well-being program coordinator in the student affairs...

Brain still healing weeks after football-related head injury

It's already football season. But even before training camp began this summer, the Baltimore Ravens sidelined their first-round draft pick, Sergio...

Some patients let doctors and nurses try, try again

In hospitals across the Triangle, doctors lose patients, patients are resuscitated, and they have symptoms that completely baffle their physicians....

Physical scientists set to work with clinicians to tackle cancer

The American Cancer Society reported that the state of Maryland saw 26,650 new cases of cancer in 2009. In that same year they report, 10,320...

Medical school applicants can help improve patient safety training

Each year, physicians must complete a set number of hours in continuing medical education. As modern medicine continues to rapidly,the continuing...

Skloot to discuss African-American woman behind 'HeLa' cells used in research

The cells scientists call “HeLa” have been grown immortally in culture for decades, yet the African-American woman from whom these...

Induced stem cells perform poorly compared to embryonic counterparts

A long term study of human stem cell types has shown that tissue-derived human stem cells performed poorly and are more likely to die prematurely...

Infectious disease exhibit featured at national medical museum

Medical science is rife with the inspirational and unexplained. The practice of medicine spans the seemingly barbaric to the sublimely elegant. Few...