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HANOVER, N.H. — Sirey Zhang, a first-year student at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, was on spring break in March when he received an email from administrators accusing him of cheating.Dartmouth had reviewed Mr. Zhang’s online…

Medical workers in protective equipment (PPE) stand on alert in front of the Covid-19 station at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on April 22, 2021 in New Delhi, India.Sonu Mehta | Hindustan Times | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON - The Biden government…

Latex gloves are filled with water in a waterproof test room at a Top Glove factory in Selangor, Malaysia on December 3, 2015.Charles Pertwee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE - The stocks of several medical suppliers in Singapore rose…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.Are speech recognition technologies like Alexa helpful in medicine or are they nonsense? For now, the short answer is a little bit of…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.Are speech recognition technologies like Alexa helpful in medicine or are they nonsense? For now, the short answer is a little bit of…

Another marijuana-based drug, Nabiximole (Sativex), is available in Canada and several European countries to treat spasticity and nerve pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.Medical cannabis is hardly a new therapeutic agent. It was…

Critical care carers insert an endotracheal tube into a patient with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida on February 11, 2021.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersSome…

"Our market has always been what I call the 'working poor' and they are getting poorer," said Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Without Frontiers. "The pandemic has wiped out low-income and middle-class people around the world, and for many…

In early January, Nali Gillespie watched her social media feed fill with vaccine selfies: photo after photo of peers at other medical schools across the country proudly posing next to a syringe with their dose of either Moderna or Pfizer…

A 20 year old who works on computers. A young researcher studying cancer. Technicians in basic research laboratories.These are some of the thousands of people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus at Columbia University, New…