Medicine & Health

Medicine & Health

Looking for Nature

Humans may have replaced much of the natural world with their own, but the need for contact with nature persists.
Medicine & Health

Gone Before First Breath

Each year millions of fetuses die late in pregnancy for reasons usually unknown.
Medicine & Health

Stop Shaking Hands!

Should health-care workers in hospitals stop shaking hands to prevent the spread of easily transmitted disease?
Medicine & Health
Susan Cu-Uvin MD looking into a microscope in a lab.

Can We Kill HIV?

Working on it—with tools ranging from microbicides to dating apps.
Medicine & Health
Illustration of researcher pill and medical needle

From Concept to Cure

A $50M gift aims to turn research into medicine, stat.
Medicine & Health
photo of Ellen Hendriksen ’99 recording a podcast

Letting Go

Four tips on overcoming social anxiety
Medicine & Health
Photo of Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo in her lab at UCLA

A Miscarriage Clue

A researcher discovers the genes that may have caused the loss of her second pregnancy
Medicine & Health
Dr. Pedro Escobar-Rodriguez

Dealmaking Doctor

The Executive Master Program helped this OB-GYN refine cancer care in Puerto Rico
Medicine & Health
Dr. Jonathan Kurtis ’89, ’95 PhD, ’96 M.D.

Malaria Man

Seeking the vaccine for the world’s #1 child killer
Medicine & Health
Illustration of elderly couple

The Aging Crisis

Can we get ready for a surge in the need for eldercare, before it’s too late?
Medicine & Health
Photo of Caleigh Steele ’20 and her sister Lynden

Portraits of Love

A student uplifts women with cancer and their care teams
Medicine & Health
Professors and students simulate a neonatal blood draw

Figure It Out!

A biomedical engineering class addresses real-world problems
Medicine & Health
Illustration of a woman warily eyeing genetic symbols

The Science of Aging

Brown scientists search for keys to living longer—and better.
Medicine & Health
Photo of Lisha Cole ’83 swabbed

Swab for the Future

Dr. Karen Bell ’68, ’70 MMSc swabs for Alzheimer's research
Medicine & Health
Dr. Megan Ranney ’10 MPH, at her Commencement forum

ER Apps

From Fitbits to medical diagnostics
Medicine & Health

Birth Mama

The long and satisfying career of Afua Hassan ’81
Medicine & Health
Candid photo of Elizabeth Cureton ’95, and Veronica Shim ’95 MD

Keep It Simple

Four Brown alums and their integrated breast care center help make a cancer diagnosis a little easier
Medicine & Health
portrait of Bella Roberts

The Stigma Slayer

A student-founded arts organization combats silence around mental illness.
The Arts
Costalegre by Courtney Maum ’01; Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson ’86; and The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora ’97

Fresh Ink

New books by Courtney Maum ’01, Louise Aronson ’86, and Lauren Acampora ’97
Medicine & Health
Image of Dr. Christopher Dodson ’99, MD ’03, with the Philadelphia 76ers

Locker-Room Doc

Philadelphia’s top orthopedic surgeon for star athletes
Medicine & Health
Image of author and Brown alum Sarah DiGregorio and daughter

Born Too Soon

A new book examines the rise in premature births
Medicine & Health
Joshua Cohen, Justin Klee and Kent Leslie

Miracle Drug?

Help may be on the way for Alzheimer’s and ALS
Medicine & Health
portrait of med student Eloho Akpovi

Race Rx

Race-based assumptions are baked into medical training. Brown med students are working to change that.
Medicine & Health
illustration of a pregnant woman, with a fever graph overlaying her polka dot top

Parenting Rules You Can Break

A sip of wine when pregnant? TV for toddlers? Professor Emily Oster crunches the data and encourages parents to relax.
Medicine & Health
portrait of Bina Venkataraman ’02

Crazy Times, Sane Decisions

Bina Venkataraman ’02 on why it’s more important than ever to plan ahead—and how to do it.
Medicine & Health
Amanda Cohn

Battling the Beast

Working the frontlines for the CDC
Service & Advocacy
Illustration by Adam McCauley

Masks, Meals, Viral Medium

The campus pitches in
Science & Tech
West Africa's 2014 Ebola crisis

COVID-19 Crash Course

How Brown and a leading global health organization teamed up to swiftly push a user-friendly coronavirus management training package out into the world.
Medicine & Health
Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott illustration by Noa Denmon

Ready to Pivot

Leading R.I.’s fight against COVID-19
Science & Tech
Screenshot of Topos

Disparate Data

The COVID-19 Compiler predicts trouble spots and trends
Politics & Law
Image of Babak Hemmatian and Gaia-Marie Gerbaka

Coming to COVID Country

Brown’s international students face ever-growing tangles of anti-immigrant red tape to get here, and stay here—not to mention the world’s highest number of COVID-19 cases.
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