The 51-year-old woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee of Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault revealed her identity in an interview with The Washington Post Sept. 16.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/19/18

Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., revealed plans to construct a new health sciences campus to replace its existing infrastructure in Phoenix for roughly $100 million.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/19/18

Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., revealed plans to construct a new health sciences campus to replace its existing infrastructure in Phoenix for roughly $100 million.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/19/18

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health revealed its request to restart its emergency medicine residency program was denied by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/19/18

More than 1,000 faculty members, medical trainees, students and alumni submitted a petition to Yale University's president Sept. 13 questioning the institution's decision to award a leading cardiologist a leadership position despite his having been found guilty of sexually harassing a junior researcher five years ago, The Washington Post reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/19/18

As soon as they are clinically ready to leave the hospital, patients start counting the minutes until their discharge. But can you imagine waiting days, months or even years? By Dr. Anna Bayes, Allscripts - 9/18/18

A cardiothoracic surgeon and his wife were killed after their plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near Boston on Sept. 15, ABC 7 NY reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

The New England Journal of Medicine doubled down on its refusal to retract a 2016 paper co-authored by a Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth health policy professor who resigned last week after allegations of plagiarism, STAT reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

Emergency room staff treat more than 2,000 babies a year for injuries caused by infant walkers, leading American pediatricians to once again call for a ban on the products, according to NPR.  By Harrison Cook - 9/17/18

Fox News partnered with the National Merit Scholarship Program to create a memorial scholarship for former contributor Charles Krauthammer, MD, the network announced Sept. 13.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Marist College and Health Quest, a five-hospital system in LaGrangeville, N.Y., announced plans to construct a joint medical school during a press conference Sept. 12, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/13/18

Hal, a medical training robot that's just entering the commercial market, was "built to suffer," according to Wired.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/12/18

A Catholic priest with ties to Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center saw his "faculties to minister removed" in the Archdiocese of Boston after allegations he sexually abused a child in 2007, The Boston Globe reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/11/18

Forty-four million people, or 13 percent of Americans, live in a county with a primary care physician shortage, defined as less than one primary care physician per 2,000 people, according to a report from UnitedHealth Group.  By Megan Knowles - 9/11/18

While the New York City-based NYU School of Medicine announced plans to eliminate tuition for all current and incoming medical school students, leadership at Boston-based Harvard Medical School said the institution has no plans to follow suit, The Harvard Crimson reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/11/18

Key thoughts:  By Ken W. Altman MD PhD - 9/10/18

Following at least a dozen sexual harassment claims by media executives and former colleagues, Vanity Fair learned Les Moonves was also the subject of an article published by a Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine at USC professor who claimed the former CBS CEO and board chairman assaulted her during an appointment in 1999.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/10/18

Nearly 80 percent of medical school students indicated they have experienced burnout at least some of the time during their education, a recent report by Medscape found.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18

A physician leader at Texas Health Plano resigned earlier this week after his comments criticizing female physicians were published in a local medical journal and went viral on social media, according to The Dallas Morning News.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City placed a moratorium on student nominations to a prestigious medical honor society in May after students called attention to the nomination process' unfairness to minority students, NPR reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18