BOSTON - All public schools in the state will be required to put emergency medical response plans in place, evaluate access to life-saving heart defibrillators and ensure teachers and coaches know CPR, under a school safety bill signed yesterday by Gov. Deval L. Patrick.

Using a $30 million anonymous gift, Harvard Medical School has opened a center to redesign primary care, which is creating a new training program for residents as one of its first projects. The medical school said Wednesday that it has hired Dr. Russell S. Phillips as director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. Dr. Andrew L. Ellner was hired as co-director.

Dartmouth College announced this morning that its medical school will be renamed the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in honor of the beloved illustrator and author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife, Audrey. Ted Geisel was a graduate of the class of 1925, and the family has given more money to the college during Geisel’s lifetime and since his death in 1991 than any ...

Dr. Richard V. Aghababian, the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School who is now retired, was elected to lead the Massachusetts Medical Society at the group’s annual meeting Thursday morning. Aghababian, who is from Southborough, will succeed Worcester pediatrician Dr. Lynda Young for a one-year term starting next week.

The University at Buffalo has chosen an architectural firm to design its new $375 million medical school at Main and High streets.

Dr. Richard V. Aghababian, a Southborough resident and the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was elected president of the Massachusetts Medical Society this morning, according to a society press release.

Medical school can be a grueling four-year journey consisting of never-ending memorization, clinical rotations and sleepless nights. So why do some students extend their medical school status by plunging into a research lab for an extra year of studies?

At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients -- and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position

A dehydrated squirrel monkey died at a Harvard Medical School research facility in December -- the third monkey to die at the New England Regional Primate Center in 19 months -- and animals there also suffered a fracture and other injuries in the past three months, according to a federal inspection report released today. The US Department of Agriculture cited Harvard for three serious incidents ...

New medical center will redefine medical education and translational research in the 21st century.New York, NY (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 After winning a global design ideas competition, HOK has been selected to design the new University at Buffalo (UB) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on its downtown campus. Competition finalists included Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and Cannon Design ...