- Rural Americans find little escape from climate change | Farm work, geography, and health care gaps leave those who live in rural areas vulnerable to extreme weather. But research on the health impacts and effective prevention is thin. https://www.aamc.org/news/rural-americans-find-little-escape-climate-change 17 comments climate
- Rep. Eshoo Introduces Authorizing Legislation for President’s ARPA-H Proposal https://www.aamc.org/advocacy-policy/washington-highlights/rep-eshoo-introduces-authorizing-legislation-president-s-arpa-h-proposal 3 comments science
- Rep. Eshoo Introduces Authorizing Legislation for ARPA-H https://www.aamc.org/advocacy-policy/washington-highlights/rep-eshoo-introduces-authorizing-legislation-president-s-arpa-h-proposal 3 comments futurology
- Canada took a risk delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses. Now, its vaccination campaign is one of the best in the world https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/canada-took-risk-delaying-second-covid-19-vaccine-doses-now-its-vaccination-campaign-one-best-world 28 comments worldnews
- Pay as You Earn repayment schedule and interest subsidy https://www.aamc.org/services/first/first_factsheets/324676/payasyouearn.html 5 comments personalfinance
- “If people don’t have access to health care, if they don’t have access to education, if they don’t have access to jobs and affordable housing then we end up paying not only in terms of human suffering and the shortening of life expectancy but in actual dollars.” https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/washhigh/highlights2013/362272/112213senatecommitteeexploresfactorsthatcontributetohealth.html 163 comments politics
- I set my user agent in Firefox 3.6.3 to Firefox 3.0, to bypass a browser requirement on a school application. Is this safe or an unnecessary risk? http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/faq/browsers.htm 7 comments browsers
- Asian-Ams need to score in the 85th percentile on the MCAT to have a 50% chance of acceptance to medical school; African-Ams need only score in the 51st percentile! (warning:PDF) http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table19-mcatpgaraceeth09-web.pdf 15 comments reddit.com
- MCAT and GPA for Medical School applicants and entrants by race: One can see in the second table that the average MCAT test scores of black matriculants are more than a standard deviation below that of whites. I'm sure Attorney General Eric (not a "coward") Holder will look into this. http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2007/mcatgparaceeth07.htm 3 comments politics