A prostate cancer diagnosis once meant facing invasive treatments. Today, genetic testing helps match patients to the treatments their bodies will best respond to. That’s how academic medicine #WorksForAmerica.

A prostate cancer diagnosis once meant facing invasive treatments. Today, genetic testing helps match patients to the treatments their bodies will best respond to. That’s how academic medicine #WorksForAmerica.
Academic medicine #WorksForAmerica — and nowhere is that clearer than in the fight against heart disease. Thanks to medical research, we’ve made enormous progress through innovations like transcatheter aortic valve replacement, mitral valve clips, and more.
Most of us know someone living with Alzheimer’s, cancer, or heart disease. They are our parents, neighbors, and friends — and they are why ongoing medical research is so important. Academic medicine #WorksForAmerica and for the people we love. https://academicmedicine.aamc.org/research-cures
GLP-1 medications help millions manage diabetes — but could they also treat opioid addiction or slow Alzheimer’s? That’s what researchers at our member institutions are working to find out. This is what it looks like when academic medicine #WorksForAmerica.