A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including a cheating scandal that has led to the invalidation of hundreds of scores from Nepal on the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, the problem of research that never sees the light of day, new anti-obesity medications, and Florida’s unorthodox approach to measles.

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Standardized Testing

“Cheated out of the American Dream”

“MCAT scores and medical school success: Do they correlate?”

”Reducing Medical School Admissions Disparities in an Era of Legal Restrictions: Adjusting for Applicant Socioeconomic Disadvantage”

“Medical School Admissions — A Movable Barrier to Ending Health Care Disparities?”

“Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Score Requirement For Admissions”

“New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education”

Research at Universities

Good Science Project: Stuart Buck

“Why Are We Screwing Over Researchers Who Make Innovative Discoveries?”

Intellectual Property: Ownership and Protection in a University Setting

Measles in Florida

“From COVID-19 to Measles, Florida’s War on Public Health”

CDC: About Measles

“Additional measles case reported at Florida elementary school as lawmaker urges public health emergency”

Obesity Drugs

“Heard on the Street: Viking Therapeutics Invades Eli Lilly’s Obesity Territory”

Unreleased Research Data

“The Ghost Research Haunting Nordic Medical Trials”

“Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysis”

Harlan Krumholz: “What have we learnt from Vioxx?”

A Transformative Gift

“$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School”

IVF in Alabama

The Alabama Supreme Court’s Ruling

“Florida Suspends Bill to Protect ‘Unborn Child’ After I.V.F. Ruling”

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Alabama Supreme Court’s Ruling on Frozen Embryos

Faculty for Yale

Faculty for Yale

“The Need For Institutional Neutrality At Universities”

“Yale faculty sign letter addressed to Yale’s future president, affirms commitment to social justice”

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