High and Dry
A simple score is the best way to assess dehydration severity in kids. Skin and tears, breath and behavior: all readily observed in a child, and assessed together, a reliable indicator of dehydration....
View ArticleRelief and Research
Brown initiative aims to help bridge humanitarian and academic efforts. From the horror of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia to the urban slums of Bangladesh, where annual springtime rains bring cholera...
View ArticleCatch Them If You Can
Chinese medical education is rising, rapidly but unevenly, from Cultural Revolution rubble. For scores of years after the first medical school opened in China in 1886, the country progressed in...
View ArticleA Coach for Insomniacs
Brown researchers are developing an interactive sleep app. There are plenty of cell phone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns. The apps generally record data on when...
View ArticleDiagnosis: ‘Residency Placement Fever’
The number of student applications for residency programs has gotten out of hand, researchers say. For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a greater than 90...
View ArticleTackling Disease after Hurricane Matthew
Alpert Medical School professor Adam Levine answers questions about managing cholera in Haiti. Since Adam Levine, MD, MPH arrived in Haiti in late October, he’s been managing a cholera treatment unit...
View ArticleOpioids, NSAIDs No Different for Chronic Pain after Crashes
But after 6 weeks, patients given opioids were more likely to still be taking them. Persistent pain is common among the nearly 4 million Americans who arrive each year at hospital emergency departments...
View ArticleBattling Deadly Fungi
Study reveals workings of immune response to deadly fungal infections. Every year, fungal infections threaten thousands of patients—from those with depressed immune systems to others who have had...
View ArticleCatherine E. Kerr, PhD
Catherine E. Kerr, 52, died November 12 in Watertown, MA, of multiple myeloma. A graduate of Amherst College, she completed a PhD in American studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1994. In 1995, while...
View ArticleJohn E . Farley Jr., MD
John E . Farley Jr., 92, died October 18 in Providence after a brief illness. A veteran of the US Army, he received his bachelor’s degree from Providence College and his medical degree from Tufts...
View ArticleFive Things You Should Know
1. Eating Better, Sort of An analysis of diet quality among more than 38,000 US children shows that their nutrition has been getting steadily better in recent years, but what they eat is still far from...
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Anatomy of a Clerkship Director
Spice of Life Sybil Cineas, MD, isn’t bored. She speaks five languages. She travels abroad so much, she says, “I have to get the extended [passport]because I always run out of pages.” She even chose...
View ArticleThe Rest of Your Life
A new app combines personal sleep analytics with research. There are plenty of cellphone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns. The apps generally record data on when...
View ArticleA Sinking Feeling
“Walking down a quiet path near a harbor in Provincetown on a brisk fall day in 2008, I glanced over the water’s edge and noted a small sunken boat in about 10 feet of water,” writes Leonard Mermel,...
View ArticleRace in Medical Education
The curriculum must challenge assumptions and unconscious bias. In fall 2014, Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Lundy Braun, PhD, offered an elective on race, health, and structural...
View ArticleA Leg Up
A new program prepares students for a career in health sciences. Let’s face it: getting accepted to medical school is no easy task. Nationwide, just 43 percent of applicants are accepted to a US...
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What the World Needs Now
Humanitarian workers and academics work together to find best practices—before the next disaster strikes. In theory, cholera treatment guidelines are pretty simple. Assess how dehydrated the patient...
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Social Justice League
A cadre of medical and legal advocates cares deeply about the health of people behind bars. In 2005, Bradley Brockmann, JD ’76 was working in Boston as a civil rights litigator for Prisoners’ Legal...
View ArticleFor-profit Comeback?
Long discouraged, for-profit medical education has established a renewed foothold in the US. More than 100 years ago, the influential Flexner Report on medical education decried the then-prevalent...
View ArticleMaximizing Diversity
New federal grant expands initiative to increase PhD student diversity beyond the life sciences. With a new $3.3 million federal grant, Brown University will extend to its physical sciences,...
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