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Affirmative Action--A Crack in the Door to Higher Education [Special Report]

Annals of Family Medicine

The ruling left a crack in the door to higher education, however, allowing students to write an essay showing how race or ethnicity affected their lives. Higher education institutions must respond to the Supreme Court ruling. These courses are often lacking in schools with predominantly BIPOC students.

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Distinguishing real from fake in the age of synthetic images

Medical Xpress

Amid headlines about artificial intelligence's implications for everything from education to the future of work itself, Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering and of radiology at the School of Medicine, both at Washington University in St.

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Automated tool can link brain scans to cognitive deficits in people with neurofibromatosis type 1

Medical Xpress

Researchers in the labs of Laurie Cutting, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor and professor of special education at the Peabody College of education and human development, and Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering, published a study in January in Magnetic Resonance (..)

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Episode 177: Wdx #10 – Negotiations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Through her role, she bridges educational and hospital leadership to engage frontline staff into the institutional quality, safety, and value mission. She is on the leadership group of the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine’s Action Collaborative to End Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.

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2025 Physician Wellness Retreats | Physician “Burnout” Retreats

Pamela Wible MD

Your retreat includes: Daily spa treatments and gourmet meals delivered to your hot tub A personalized business launch plan: from fee structure to client contracts Search-engine-optimized website copy and marketing strategy 20 hours of bonus Live Your Dream Fast Track training —free! All retreats are 100% tax deductible as a business expense.

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A new generation of microimplants

Medical Xpress

We are talking about a new generation of interactive microimplants developed by the innovation cluster INTAKT, which is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. In February 2017, experts at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) reported the use of CRISPR in performing “gene surgery” in the layer of tissue that supports the retina of living mice.

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