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Health

The total package: a skillful, compassionate doctor

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Patients and their families want physicians who are gifted in diagnosis and treatment and who are caring individuals with the interpersonal skills needed to communicate complex information in stressful circumstances. A new study in the January issue of Academic Medicine shows training physicians to be humanistic is feasible and produces measurably better communicators.  More »

Two summer research opportunities for high school, college students

Simon Cancer Center

High school and college students from underrepresented minority populations interested in cancer research careers can gain hands-on experiences during this summer's IU Simon Cancer Center Summer Research Program.  More »

Stress

Uncertainty and Children

As families across the country face losses of nest eggs, homes or jobs, their young children and teens need emotional support and need to be informed of pending family upheaval.  More »

Stop the ‘fat talk’

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Bodies of all shapes and sizes are being celebrated on the IU Bloomington campus this month as health and fitness professionals encourage co-eds to ditch the "fat talk" and uncomfortable jeans and to look upon their bodies with fresh eyes.  More »