Kinder Than Necessary
If you Google kindness, you’ll get about a million pages’ worth of quotes about being kind. Many, I noticed, appear in the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio, including this gem: “When given the choice...
View ArticleAn MD with Valor
The AMA honors a physician and civil rights activist. The American Medical Association honored Robert Smith, MD, with the Medal of Valor Award for fighting social injustice and providing health care to...
View ArticleCross Talk
Brown physician-scientists bridge academic divides to improve the lives of people with brain disorders. At first glance Judy Liu, MD, PhD, and Eric Morrow, MD, PhD, don’t seem to have much in common....
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Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine “[T]here is tremendous pressure from powerful economic actors to maintain the health care status quo. Eliminating a dollar of waste in the health care system...
View ArticleNo Relief in Sight
A urologist joins efforts to rebuild her native Puerto Rico. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Janice Santos Cortes, MD, an assistant professor of surgery (urology) and a native of Puerto...
View ArticleThe Show Must Go On
When illness strikes, this doctor is waiting in the wings. You’re a top musician in one of the world’s best symphony orchestras, performing thousands of miles from home, and you’ve got a nagging cough....
View ArticleThe Way Forward
With individual attention and therapy, a family navigates life with autism. Lisa and Carl Lavin never expected to take this journey. It began more than a decade ago, when they noticed that their...
View ArticleOpioid Treatment Behind Bars Reduces Overdose Deaths
Treating people for opioid addiction in prison saves lives when they get out, a new study finds. A treatment program for opioid addiction launched by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections was...
View ArticleSuperbug Kryptonite?
Scientists identify compounds with the potential to treat MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant infections. A team of researchers led by Brown University infectious disease experts and engineers has...
View ArticleDrug Extends Survival in Kids with Progeria
A therapy originally developed to treat cancer could help children with this rare, fatal disease to live longer. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that an...
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Doctors Tackle Gun Violence
Emergency physician Megan Ranney says the best way to address firearm injury is with research and facts. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, firearm-related...
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Code Talker
Computational biologist Sohini Ramachandran and her team are mining human genetic data to understand the impact of our ancestry on our health. Not long after Sohini Ramachandran, PhD, joined the...
View ArticleFor the Record
A video archive preserves the history of the Medical School. When Jeffrey Borkan, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine, first came to Brown’s Medical School in 2001, he tried to get a...
View ArticleThe AFFIRM Mission
If the federal government won’t fund gun injury prevention research, a new coalition of physicians and scientists will. At Brown we have a strong history of practice and advocacy on behalf of...
View ArticleThe Messenger
Philip Chan is getting the word out about PrEP. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a daily pill that prevents HIV infection and transmission with up to 99 percent effectiveness. Tens of millions of...
View ArticleWhy You Eat What You Eat
The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food By Rachel Herz, PhD, W.W. Norton & Company, 2018, $25.95 “Food porn is more than semantics. … The fact that we are wired to desire food and sex is...
View Article$1 Could Save a Life
Low-cost, low-tech test strips effectively detect fentanyl in street drugs. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s up to 100 times more potent than morphine, is implicated in the recent spike in overdose...
View ArticleSpecial Guest
Marc K. Siegel, MD ’78, Fox News medical correspondent and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, moderated “The Opioid Crisis: Brown’s Approach to Prevention and Treatment,” a...
View ArticleThe Comfort of Your Living Room
TV shows allow premed students to ponder ethical dilemmas. Is it ethically permissible for parents to refuse vaccinations for their children? The question prompted a heated debate after students in the...
View ArticleProtecting Patients
The Warren Alpert Medical School leads the country in training students to provide trauma-informed care. Sadie Elisseou ’06 MD’10 calls her next patient’s name into the primary care waiting room on the...
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