Fourteen medical students from historically Black college and university medical schools will be working for the first time on the staffs of eight NFL teams this upcoming season, The Washington Post reported Aug. 10.

Primary care providers don't have nearly enough time to provide guideline-recommended preventive, chronic disease and acute care, according to a new study. 

In letters to the House and Senate, medical groups urged Congress to pass the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act, which incentivizes foreign physicians to serve in underserved communities. The bill would extend the Conrad 30 waiver program, which allows these international medical graduates to remain in the United States. 

Below are brief biographies of the chief medical officers at the hospitals that took the top 10 spots in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 best hospital rankings.

The latest stick thrown in the post-Roe wildfire is cancer treatments for pregnant women, The New York Times reported July 23. 

Earlier this month, Alameda Health System witnessed a historic moment at one of its hospital's emergency departments that speaks to the organization's efforts to promote more diversity among its physician leaders, the Oakland, Calif.-based system said July 22. 

The Association of American Medical Colleges released its official diversity, equity and inclusion curriculum standards July 21.

Arjang Djamali, MD, former kidney transplant specialist at Madison, Wis.-based UW Health, donated a kidney to a former patient June 29. 

Alena Analeigh Wicker, a 13-year-old girl from Texas, made history after being the youngest Black student accepted into a U.S. medical school, WSB-TV reported July 19.

Neurologist Howard Tucker, MD, who turned 100 on July 10, teaches medical residents at Cleveland-based St. Vincent Charity Medical Center and has held the Guinness World Record for oldest practicing physician since February 2021, Cleveland Jewish News reported July 8. 

Clinicians who responded to six mass shootings in recent years have developed recommendations based on lessons they learned to support other healthcare facilities in treating victims. 

Physicians are frustrated with the process required to treat monkeypox patients and obtain a prescription for Tpoxx, — the antiviral being used to treat the infection, The Washington Post reported July 15. 

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology will hold a virtual certification exam, normally conducted in Texas, due to test takers' safety concerns following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and uncertainties regarding COVID-19, Bloomberg Law reported July 14.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said his office will investigate Caitlin Bernard, MD, the Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who cared for a pregnant 10-year-old rape victim.

Several emergency physicians at Banner Health's University Medical Center Phoenix are providing virtual training sessions on trauma care to assist medical personnel in Ukraine working on the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war. 

Hagerstown, Md.-based Meritus Health will move forward with plans to open a four-year medical school in the city. 

It's been more than a year since Alice Walton announced her plans for a national medical school in northwest Arkansas. New details about the facility and its goals are available.

Robert Cameron, MD, was reinstated as chief of thoracic surgery at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center on July 7 following his involuntary retirement in 2018 for disclosing concerns over anesthesia staffing practices. 

The American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics have warned the Supreme Court's June 30 ruling that limited the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate carbon emissions — a key driver of climate change — will have negative consequences for public health. 

Naperville, Ill.-based Edward-Elmhurst Health system announced the formation of its new medical group, Edward-Elmhurst Medical Group, on July 6.