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![Teachers receive awards from students](/medicine/images/news/celebrating-teaching-excellence.jpg)
October 27, 2023
Excellence is the cornerstone of Florida Atlantic Schmidt College of Medicine. This year, we continue our tradition of celebrating medical educators not only for their expertise but for their transformative imprints on their...
![FAU Experts Support Vaccination With the Newest COVID-19 Vaccine](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/covidcommentary23.jpg)
October 26, 2023
In a commentary published in the American Journal of Medicine, researchers from FAU and collaborators provide the most updated guidance to health care providers.
![AAMC - Association of American Medical Colleges](/medicine/images/news/aamc.jpg)
October 20, 2023
FAU Schmidt College of Medicine extends its sincere congratulations to two exceptional members of our team for their significant appointments to national committees under the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
![FAU Receives $750,000 Philanthropic Grant for Alzheimer's Disease](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/ad-hands-newsdesk.jpg)
September 18, 2023
FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine has received a grant from the Carl Angus DeSantis Foundation, which will transform the care of neurodegenerative diseases.
![U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths More Than Quadrupled from 1999 to 2020](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/drug-overdose-chart-newsdesk.jpg)
September 12, 2023
Regardless of race, age, geography or urbanization, a new study by FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine shows U.S. drug overdose deaths more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2020, causing 1,013,852 deaths.
![Gene Discovery Nets FAU Researchers U.S. Patent to Treat Addiction](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/blakely-hahn-patent.jpg)
September 07, 2023
An invention in the fields of pharmacology, medicine, neuroscience and psychiatry using a molecular approach to treat addiction has earned Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., and Maureen Hahn, Ph.D., a U.S. patent.
![Geographic 'Hot Spots' for Cigarette, Firearm Deaths in the U.S.](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/trends-newsdesk-2013-2019.jpg)
August 29, 2023
A new FAU study shows geographically distinct areas of the highest death rates in the U.S. related to cigarettes as well as firearms, including both assault and suicide over two decades from 1999 to 2019.