Death and doctors: New study looks at medical student education on end-of-life care
Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It's the price of saving lives and helping people.
Jan 14, 2026
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Health Occupations: News and Research on Internal Medicine
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An electronic health record-integrated AI agent advances personalized prostate cancer education
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed and evaluated MedEduChat, an electronic health record (EHR) that works with a large language model to provide accurate, patient-specific prostate cancer education.
Jan 7, 2026
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Biomedical authors often call a reference 'recent'—even when it is decades old, analysis shows
Authors in biomedical journals frequently describe cited evidence as "recent," yet the actual age of the references behind these phrases has rarely been measured.
Dec 11, 2025
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UK research reveals dramatic rise in young people using mental health services
One in five young people in the UK now access specialist mental health care by age 18—a four-fold increase in under two decades, new research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry suggests.
Dec 10, 2025
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Data-driven surgical supply lists can reduce hospital costs and waste
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Data Science Alliance, a nonprofit promoting the importance of a responsible science environment, led a study showing that hospitals ...
Nov 26, 2025
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Thousands of NHS doctors trapped in insecure 'gig economy' contracts, investigation reveals
Thousands of locally employed doctors (LEDs)—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minority backgrounds—are trapped on insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards, ...
Nov 19, 2025
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Using clinical guidelines as a lever for more equitable health care
How can clinical guidelines be designed in such a way that they enable (contextually) equitable and inclusive health care—and at the same time promote research and innovation in a targeted manner? Professor Dr. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, ...
Oct 14, 2025
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Patients value communication skills from cancer surgeons across six key areas, according to research
Facing a cancer diagnosis can be one of the most stressful times for patients and their loved ones. When seeking a surgeon for treatment, providing emotional support and helping patients manage expectations are among the ...
Oct 3, 2025
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How to save global cancer research from Trump's cuts
Cancer kills 1 in 5 people globally. Yet, except for a one-off increase in 2021, the flow of money for cancer research has trended downward every year since 2016.
Sep 2, 2025
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Global inequalities found in cancer research funding
Researchers at the University of Southampton examining worldwide variations in funding for cancer research say there's a pressing need to invest more in lower income countries.
Sep 1, 2025
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