Medical schools prepare for "silver tsunami"
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Just a few years ago,  a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an  inkling about how to care for the elderly.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water
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A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family physicians in at least five states by 2020.
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Scientists say that Padang, Indonesia, may well be hit by a tsunami within the next 30 years, and a private group is working to educate the public on how to respond.
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Healthcare experts call for more funding, better training, and changes in institutional culture.
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A crisis is looming in upstate New York unless cities like Binghamton can do a better job of recruiting doctors, according to a recent report.
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A provocative study from Harvard Medical School suggests that, as a group, older doctors know less, provide lower-quality care, and may expose patients to greater risks than physicians recently out of medical school, a conclusion that an accompanying editorial declares should be "a wake-up call to the medical profession."
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Bodies stacked up in hospitals and on beaches Monday, raising fears of disease in an arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 22,500 people.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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There are worries about the economic consequences of a decline in students taking science subjects.
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan urgently to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia
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To help create warning systems to detect catastrophic events such as the tsunamis in south Asia, scientific research needs adequate support.
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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, UK authorities warn.
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a potential problem that led a national group of emergency-room doctors Monday to call for better preparation for the oncoming
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To help prepare university students for the new services-based economy, I.B.M. wants colleges to teach services as a science.