Cleveland Clinic will receive a $30 million gift from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation for leadership and innovation efforts, the organization said Oct. 6.

Physicians are speaking out against a new California law that could revoke their licenses for spreading COVID-19 "misinformation" during conversations with patients. 

Sixty-nine percent of physicians believe U.S. gun laws are not strict enough, according to a Medscape survey of more than 2,300 practicing physicians published Oct. 7. 

Banner Health clinics in Greeley, Colo., added two physicians to its staff specializing in LGBTQ care, The Greeley Tribune reported Oct. 6.

Here are three donations to medical schools over $10 million that Becker's has covered since Sept. 15:

Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center will construct a new medical education center to improve primary and psychiatric care, local news outlet WALB reported Oct. 5.

Male physicians receive significantly higher payments from medical companies compared with female physicians, according to a study published Sept. 28 Jama Surgery.

Patients are more likely to refer to female physicians by their first name in electronic messaging compared to male physicians, a study published Oct. 5 in JAMA Network Open found.

Neal Nathanson, MD, the former vice dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and pioneering HIV/AIDS and polio researcher, died of leukemia and pneumonia on Aug. 11, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Oct. 4. He was 94.

The U.S. healthcare system should "radically reorient" around relationships rather than viewing patient care as a series of individual encounters, three physicians said in an Oct. 4 Mayo Clinic Proceedings article. 

Physicians serving medical facilities in Santa Clara County, Calif., are speaking out against county management for the second time this year.

A California bill signed into law Oct. 3 gives physicians more time to interpret test results, allows patients to pick how they would like to receive medical scans and adds protections for sensitive teen data.

Steven Shelov, MD, will be retiring as dean of NYU Long Island School of Medicine on Jan. 2, 2023, it said Oct. 3.

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh will launch a pediatric cancer research institute after a $5 million gift from the Mario Lemieux Foundation.

On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that could revoke the licenses of physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation. 

Boston University School of Medicine will be renamed to the Boston University Aram V. Chobanian and Edward Avedisian School of Medicine after Mr. Avedisian donated $100 million to the school, The Boston Globe reported Sept. 29.

The burnout rate among U.S. physicians spiked from 38.2 percent in 2020 to 62.8 percent in 2021, an increase of 24.6 percentage points, according to a Sept. 13 analysis from Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Here are seven stories on medical school partnerships that Becker's has reported on since Aug. 25: 

Baltimore-based Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital plans to open a new medical school at historically Black college Morgan State University, also in Baltimore, CBS affiliate WJZ reported Sept. 27.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine identified four new research focus areas identified by the research strategic planning steering committee and the Academic Medical Center of the 21st Century research steering committee.