Chicago-based DePaul University is seeking to expand its healthcare education program, an initiative that may lead to the construction of another medical school in the Chicagoland area, according to Crain's Chicago Business.
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Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine will no longer use Commonwealth Health's clinical sites and physicians, according to The Times-Tribune.
The trial for a New York physician facing several charges for allegedly spiking his girlfriend's beverage with an abortion pill, which was set to begin this week, has been delayed until March 2018, according to ABC-7 News.
An NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn physician was found dead in his apartment Tuesday morning after allegedly suffering an overdose, according to the New York Daily News.
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A U.K. surgeon pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault by beating for allegedly branding his initials into the livers of two separate patients he performed transplant operations on in 2013, according to The Guardian.
Police identified the man who shot and killed himself and his two young children Saturday as Christopher Dawson, MD, a former physician at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Waxahachie (Texas), according to the Star-Telegram.
The University of Buffalo (N.Y.) Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences opened its $375 million medical school building at the medical school's downtown campus Tuesday, The Buffalo News reports.
Roughly 60 faculty, students and medical residents from the UC San Francisco staged a "die-in" protest outside San Francisco General Hospital to protest armed security guards in hospitals, according to Mission Local.