PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After years of on-and-off discussions, Rhode Island's two most dominant health care organizations announced on Tuesday that they have signed a merger agreement that...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton University has unveiled a plan to build a $75 million medical school facility, much of the funding for which will come from C.L. and Rachel Werner of Omaha....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton University has received a $25 million donation from an unnamed foundation to create a program at its medical school for students interested in addressing poverty and...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As the Thanksgiving week begins, South Carolina's chief medical school is joining with the Charleston airport to give free COVID-19 tests.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana State University committee searching for a new system leader has chosen a headhunting firm out of Atlanta to find candidates for the job leading universities,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of Nashville’s Meharry Medical College, the oldest historically Black medical school in the country, on Thursday urged Black and Hispanic people to participate in...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Harvard Medical School professor is giving a lecture at the University of Rhode Island on health care disparities that affect those with disabilities.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials with Belmont University announced Thursday that they intend to start a new medical school in Nashville.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University has agreed to pay $87,500 to four female cardiologists in its medical school after the U.S. Labor Department found they were being paid less than their male...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's two largest hospital groups have signed a letter of intent to merge and form a partnership with Brown University's medical school, officials announced...

ATLANTA (AP) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving about $100 million to four historically Black medical schools over the next four years, with students getting up to $100,000...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana University School of Medicine announced Thursday that it's seeking up to 1,500 volunteers to take part in a late-stage clinical trial of an experimental COVID-19...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The Cherokee Nation is welcoming 54 first-year medical students to to the nation’s first tribally affiliated medical school.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some medical schools in Michigan are increasing their class size because they're receiving an influx of applicants during a time marked by a shortage of...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The University of Rochester is joining the ranks of colleges removing the names of people with racist backgrounds from campus buildings in the wake of protests following the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Toledo-area elected officials said Tuesday that they are seeking Gov. Mike DeWine's help in protecting the future of the University of Toledo Medical Center, amid accusations...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A historically black university in New Orleans has its seventh agreement to fast-track medical school acceptance for some students.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota company is working with universities and a medical school on using unmanned aerial vehicles in the fight against the coronavirus.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that the murder case against the wife of a University of Connecticut medical school doctor can proceed, despite authorities having...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — More than 50 University of Kansas medical students are graduating early to participate in a program that will deploy them throughout the state to respond to the...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va (AP) — An online-only mini-medical school program on the new coronavirus will be broadcast from the West Virginia University Medicine East Facebook page this week.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas-area officials say a new medical building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will help train more doctors but more steps need to be taken to address a physician...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new four-year medical school in St. Louis will focus on training doctors who will work in poor urban and rural areas.

Puerto Rico-based Ponce Health Sciences University is...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Washington University will spend more than $600 million to build an 11-story neuroscience building in St. Louis that will be among the nation's largest properties of its...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Documents: Doctor stayed at University of Michigan for decades after supervisor confronted him about alleged sex abuse.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Ochsner Health System is going to start paying the medical school education of students who commit to work with Ochsner in Louisiana for five years, the organization's CEO...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A senior associate dean at Tulane University School of Medicine has been named as the new dean of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, medical school.

MONROE, La. (AP) — Grambling State University has reached an early admissions agreement with an osteopathic medical school that is to start up classes in July at a private campus on the grounds of...

LEWISBURG, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine on Monday said it is looking for patients for its free annual osteopathic clinic.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — University of Arizona’s medical school announced Friday that it will give free tuition to some students who commit to working as primary care doctors in underserved areas, an...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Washington University has contributed $250,000 to an effort to place a Medicaid expansion question on Missouri’s November 2020 ballot.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council has approved a public financing package worth about a $35.5 million to subsidize the creation of a medical school.

PHOENIX (AP) — The University of Arizona's medical college in Phoenix is increasing its enrolling class size to 100 students, up from 80.

The college says the increase will take effect in...

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — The federal government's supporting an effort by Maine's only medical school to train medical students to treat opioid use disorders.