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Getting drugs to a tumour with nanoparticles
Side effects from cancer treatment could be greatly minimized if we can harness tiny particles
Medicine’s deadly gender gap
New research on pain, medical devices and even PMS reveals big holes in our knowledge of the female body.
The fast track
For some students, four years of undergrad is too much
Doctor offers second opinion on medical school interviews
Multiple Mini Interview criticized (and defended)
Get them where they live
New program shows less-wealthy kids a path to medicine
What to do if you don’t get into medical school
From the 2011 Maclean’s Professional Schools Rankings
Feds fund science outreach in Ontario
Money will create programs for under-represented youth
The stuff of war, raw and uncensored
The War Museum’s new exhibit on medicine blends history, emotion and gore
Power of the placebo
Studies are showing that placebos prescribed to unknowing (and knowing) patients actually work