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May 7, 2009
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New tool calculates risk of bleeding in heart attack patients

With eight basic medical facts in hand, doctors can now estimate the risk of bleeding for a patient having a heart attack.

class show

They've got the beat


(From left) Shaun Yockelson, Natalie Villafranco, Brandon Holmes, Tim Laumann and Eric Kim, all first-year students in the School of Medicine, play at the end of the class show May 1 in Moore Auditorium.

Medical students to benefit from two new simulation centers

School of Medicine students have two new state-of-the-art simulation centers in which they can get hands-on clinical training.

Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker

Researchers have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer's disease to brain damage in humans with no signs of mental impairment.

Faculty donate textbooks to hospital in Sudan

School of Medicine clinical faculty and staff recently collected more than 1,500 medical textbooks to be donated to a hospital in Sudan.