A Race Against the Clock
In sepsis, every second counts. But the hunt for a sure-fire cure seems to be stuck on the starting line. Until January 2014, Victoria Morrone, RN, had always been pretty healthy. As a CNA and nursing...
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#RepresentationMatters
Malika Favre’s March New Yorker cover was intended to show the last thing you see before you undergo surgery. But it touched off a social media phenomenon, resonating with women surgeons who so rarely...
View ArticleAsk the Expert
Can cutting the nicotine in cigarettes help people quit? When the US Food and Drug Administration announced in July a new policy to substantially reduce and limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes,...
View ArticleLaugh it Off
Comics provide relief from the intensity of the research lab. One of Brown University’s researchers is leading a double life. OK, he’s not a costumed crime fighter—but he does fight to bring a little...
View ArticleBest Practices
Brown forges a stronger clinical alliance with the formation of BPI. With a few pen strokes, an alliance years in the making was solidified during last May’s Corporation meeting, when the presidents of...
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Anatomy of a Dean
The future is female. Katherine Sharkey, MD , PhD, was a resident in Rush University Medical Center’s combined medicine and psychiatry program when she had her two sons, Nick and Alex. No problem, she...
View ArticleKindred Spirits
Chaplains and palliative care doctors share the power to ease suffering. As a palliative care doctor, I often feel misunderstood. Though it’s early in my training, I have already been called “Doctor...
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Discovering Ancient Skull Surgeries
Why are there so many tidy round holes in prehistoric skulls? Possible answers might include sword punctures, falling rocks, acid drips in tombs, or beetles and rodents gnawing at the skull after...
View ArticleThe Eyes Have It
Retinal cells go with the flow to assess the body’s motion through space. Think of the way that a long, flat highway seems to widen out around you from a single point on the horizon, while in the...
View ArticleOutside the Box
A doctor-designer collaboration puts a lifesaving drug in the public’s hands. No one remedy can turn around a crisis as complex as the opioid overdose epidemic. But there’s only one “resurrection...
View ArticleA Joint Epidemic
Obesity increases the incidence, severity, and costs of knee dislocations. A new study of more than 19,000 knee dislocation cases in the US between 2000 and 2012 provides a painful indication of how...
View ArticleA Beta Grasp of Brainwaves
Brains use brief bursts of beta waves, rather than sustained rhythms, to control attention and perception. To better understand the brain and to develop potential therapies, neuroscientists have been...
View ArticleBreathe Easier
An $8 million NIH grant will expand community asthma care program led by two Medical School researchers. To improve asthma care across Rhode Island and beyond, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...
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Bio Professors Named AAAS Fellows
Sharon Swartz and Stephen Helfand were elected for “distinguished contributions” to their fields. Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general...
View ArticleFertile Ground for Science
Brown’s Herbarium is digitizing tens of thousands of plants preserved over two centuries. Behind a zigzagging glass wall that faces into the main floor hallway of Brown’s BioMed Center, Dan Davis ’19...
View ArticleMeasuring Mindfulness
Researchers ‘dismantle’ a common intervention to see how each component works. As health interventions based on mindfulness have grown in popularity, some of the field’s leading researchers have become...
View ArticleBlood or Hospice?
Researchers find some leukemia patients must choose between transfusions or end-of-life care. Toward the end of life, some leukemia patients depend on blood transfusions to ease their suffering....
View ArticleSensation Communication
Discovery of circuits in cortex of mice deepens understanding of brain’s sensory circuitry. Because they provide an exemplary physiological model of how the mammalian brain receives sensory...
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A People Without Country
Two faculty members find themselves in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world: among the displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh. Although the line is long with people waiting to see the...
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The Good Fight
Hepatitis C is the deadliest infectious disease in the US. The VA has a strategy to defeat it among veterans. Homelessness, mental health disorders, and substance use can be barriers to care for...
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