Kaleidoscope : Killer Docs

Doctor-cum author Robin Cook, is an expert writer of medical thrillers—he wrote his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while he was on board the Navy&rsqu...

First-Of-Its-Kind Blog Series Spreads Message Of Hope For Women With Postpartum Depression

More common than diabetes during pregnancy, depression affects one in seven women who are pregnant or have recently had a baby. The often unrecognized and unmet mental heal...

Not-So-Bitter Pill

Oral contraceptive use not associated with increased birth defects risk. Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects...

Not-So-Bitter Pill

Oral contraceptive use not associated with increased birth defects risk. Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects...

Artificial Patients, Real Learning

The patient’s blood pressure had reportedly crashed in the ambulance; a gunshot wound had damaged the heart. In the operating room, a medical resident, Dr. Dan Hashim...

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

Meet the One Woman Medical School For TV Doctors-

Kate Folb is in the middle of telling a story.

Inspired by the season finale of How to Get Away With Murder, which featured two protagonists getting tested for HIV,...

MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...