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Pre-Health Professions Day is an opportunity for ´óÏó´«Ã½ undergraduates, graduates, and the community to talk with admissions representatives from health-related graduate and professional programs.

Twenty-two registered nurses studying to become nurse practitioners in ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Lynn College of Nursing will join professors on a trip that will transform their lives and how they think about providing healthcare.

Researchers will work to define the mechanisms governing how cells decide whether to become a mature cell or whether to die. Their work will shed light on how to make transplantable tissues to cure diseases.

Arthur J. Ross III, M.D., M.B.A., has joined ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine as interim dean. Ross also will spearhead the national search for a permanent dean over the next several months.

U.S. Congressman Ted Deutch visited ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine to meet and discuss health policies and the changing health care system with medical students.

A bioengineer at ´óÏó´«Ã½ will develop a novel biodegradable polymer stent that will be designed to prevent complications while at the same time serving as a drug delivery system for esophageal cancer therapy.

A new study shows that black and white women ages 75 to 84 years who had an annual mammogram had lower 10-year breast cancer mortality than corresponding women who had biennial or no/irregular mammograms.

´óÏó´«Ã½ researchers are the first to show that cells in close proximity to each other can sense when a cell is dying due to environmental stressors like UV light and smoke, and eat the cell before it becomes toxic.

An ´óÏó´«Ã½ analyses of nationwide data on individuals who were killed as a result of legal intervention or law enforcement in the U.S. between 1999 and 2013, shows a 45 percent increase mostly among non-whites.

Benjamin R. Childs is not a typical first-year medical student. Before coming to ´óÏó´«Ã½, he was in real estate finance, taught at a public school in Harlem, and volunteered as an EMT for Central Park Medical Unit.