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Thirty-five Alpert medical students and Brown University PLME undergraduates as well as 16 physicians affiliated with Alpert Medical School attended the annual networking dinner of the Asian Pacific...
View ArticleThe Next Frontier
Physicians and scientists look for answers in new dimensions. This is where the magic happens: in a dimly lit corner of an ordinary computer lab behind a nondescript door in a drab corridor of Rhode...
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Cool Under Pressure
By Tom Germano | Artwork by Hal Mayforth When crisis hits home, years of training can go to the dogs. Cool under pressure. The best emergency physicians are cool under pressure. That was me—or so I...
View ArticleWalking the Walk
She says she’s not a superwoman, but she’s using her power for good. Elizabeth Harrington, PhD, cherishes her friends and her family, even her dog who eats rocks and racks up astronomical vet bills....
View ArticleA Deadly Mix
Simultaneous cocaine and alcohol use is linked to suicide. In a general sense, medical studies support the popular intuition—a staple of movies and literature—that suicidal behavior and substance...
View ArticleUntil It Happens to You
The Medical School’s deputy Title IX officer works to address sexual discrimination and violence. As many as one in four college students is sexually assaulted and many more may suffer discrimination...
View ArticleFor Richer or Poorer
Low-income women have the fewest defenses against Zika. The Zika virus has been in Africa since at least 1947, causing fever and other, usually mild symptoms in only 20 percent of infected people, and...
View ArticleFrederick G. Murphy, MD
Frederick G. Murphy, 69, died at his home in Orleans, MA, on March 21, 2016, after a two-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia. He graduated from Assumption College with a degree in languages (French...
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Robert W. Hopkins, MD
Robert W. Hopkins died February 22, 2016, at his home in Milton, MA. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, then followed his father and grandfather into surgery, completing his...
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World View
Globetrotting physician’s photos are now on display at Alpert Medical School. Leonard Mermel, DO, MS, a professor of medicine at Alpert Medical School and the medical director of the Department of...
View ArticleStudy describes new brain disorder
Researchers show how mutations lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative disease. In rare cases—for instance, among siblings in two families from Pakistan and Oman described in a new...
View ArticleMega Milestone
There was lots to celebrate at the first-ever emergency medicine reunion. Feeling lost, anxious, clueless—just utterly, glaringly, brand new—every physician has been there on the first day of...
View ArticleCharles Malone, MD
Charles “Charlie” Malone, 88, died April 24. A professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown and the medical director at Bradley Hospital, he devoted his career to training mental health...
View ArticleBaby Steps
As more and more infants are born dependent on opioids, hospitals and researchers are working together to chart the best path to recovery. Caitlyn O’Brien has been here before. That doesn’t make it any...
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Inbox
Lasting Tribute Thank you so much for publishing a short obituary of my partner, Professor Richard A. Ellis, in your journal (Winter 2016). He cared deeply about Brown University and bequeathed a...
View ArticleResearch Boom
Unprecedented funding expands the Division’s profile. As federal grant funding goes, the past year was one for the record books. An $11.5 million Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in...
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
By Peter D. Kramer, MD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, $27 “Denying the efficacy of antidepressants may begin well enough, with a love of psychotherapy and a respect for human complexity. But in time,...
View ArticleDo No Harm
Would more melanoma screenings mean more unnecessary tests and treatments? Malignant melanoma kills about 10,000 people in the US every year, but it can be cured if caught early. While some experts are...
View ArticleOpen Mind
Neurologist Karen Furie has devoted her career to understanding and preventing stroke. Karen Furie has always been a reader. As the daughter of a nurse and a dentist growing up in Queens, NY, she would...
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S. Frederick Slafsky, MD
S. Frederick Slafsky, 83, died January 8 after a fall. A general surgeon who practiced in Providence for 38 years, he was one of the first surgical appointees to the Brown University School of...
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